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__The Holocaust and Racism in America during WW2__
===Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the US had an opportunity to open its doors, but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country. It was not until 1944, that a small band of Treasury Department employees forced the government to respond.=== From: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/index.html

===By contemporary standards, America in the first half of the 20th century was a profoundly racist nation. Jews and people of color were openly barred from clubs, colleges, neighborhoods, and mainstream American life. In vaudeville, racist humor dominated. Performers playing African Americans were required to appear in blackface, while stage Jews had to wear long beards, and be venal Shylocks.=== From: http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/social/antisemitism/

__US Help to Holocaust Victims__
===The [|St. Louis] sailed out of Hamburg, Germany into the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 1939 carrying over 950 Jewish refugees, seeking asylum (a safe place) from Nazi persecution just before World War II.===

===After seeking asylum in Cuba and being refused, the ship headed to Florida, where, on 4 June 1939, it was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt.. On 4 June 1939 Roosevelt issued an order to deny entry to the ship, which was waiting in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers died in Nazi concentration camps.===

__Did the US public know about the Holocaust?__
===From the start of the war in Europe on September 1, 1939 to its end nearly 6 years later, the New York Times and other mass media treated the persecution and ultimately the annihilation of the Jews of Europe as a secondary story. They reported it. In fact, from September 1939 through May 1945, the Times published 1,186 stories about what was happening to the Jews of Europe, or an average of 17 stories per month. But the story never received the continuous attention that it deserved. Not once did the story lead the paper, meaning appear in the right-hand column reserved for the day’s most important news – not even when the concentration camps were liberated at the end of the war.===

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More sites that have timelines and details about important moments and events of the Holocaust:

http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/timeline/index.html

http://www.ushmm.org/