The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945

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In his landmark The Abandonment of the Jews David S. Wyman argues that a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis victims. The definitive work on its subject The Abandonment of the Jews is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award the Anisfield-Wolf Award the Present Tense Literary Award the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.