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American Jewry and the Holocaust
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945

Yehuda Bauer 		In this volume Yehuda Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews throughout the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported and killed are set in the context of the heroic individuals and small groups who actively worked to prevent the Nazis' Final Solution. "A work of extraordinary scope . . . one of the most important books yet written about the Holocaust." — The Jerusalem Post
 
$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-1672-7

524 pages

1981