Articles: Eleanor Roosevelt talks about her husband and the Holocaust

 

FDR told a prominent Jewish Democrat who urged him to ease the restrictions on Jews trying to flee Europe:

"The Jews in America should know that they are tolerated here, but not more than that. American issues come first."

My second memory was of a memo that Treasury officials, in an effort to counter the endemic anti-Semitism of the State Department, wrote in 1943. Entitled "The Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews," it said that "Unless remedial steps of a drastic nature are taken, and taken immediately, no effective action will be taken by this government to prevent the complete extermination of the Jews in German controlled Europe, and that this Government will have to share for all time responsibility for this extermination."

Articles: Eleanor Roosevelt talks about her husband and the Holocaust