Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557535078)

Well, let's face it. There's no question in my mind that some of the people over there [U.S. State Department]--whose names are in my book --were actually just plain anti-Semitic. It's just that simple. There's no question according to the transcript of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., during a tape-recorded interview conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library, 1973. Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young treasury department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to allow Jewish immigration. The United States, spurred on by the America First Committee, wanted to remain neutral during the early days of World War II. Anti-Semitic influences kept the United States from filling its quotas for refugees, supposedly to keep Nazi spies out of the country. DuBois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews. Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., was a different kind of hero of the Holocaust. He was not a rescuer, and he did not shelter refugees. He was a whistle-blower and opened the eyes of the global community to Nazi atrocities.

Author: Rafael Medoff
ISBN-10: 1557535078
ISBN-13: 9781557535078
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 157
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/03/2008 pg. 21
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 30