Roosevelt and the Holocaust

by Beir, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9781569803400
• ISBN10: 1569803404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Barricade Books Inc

Summary

At age fourteen, Robert Beir's journey through life changed irrevocably when a classmate called him a "dirty Jew." Suddenly, Beir encountered the belligerent poison of anti-Semitism. The safe confines of his upbringing had been violated. The pain that he felt at that moment was for more hurtful than any blow. Its memory would last a lifetime.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Timeline of World and Holocaust Events	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxxiii
A Blur of Strange Occurrences	p. 1
A Decade of Newsreels	p. 7
Impressions of War-Torn Britain	p. 29
The Kind of Man Roosevelt Hired	p. 55
"What Have I Got to Lose?"	p. 65
A Journey with Roosevelt	p. 71
"The Best Jew Is a Dead Jew"	p. 75
The Avery Brundage Effect	p. 93
Quarantine	p. 99
"An Orgy of Sadism"	p. 107
A "Dangerous People to Have Around in Large Number"	p. 117
"Chased Like an Animal"	p. 123
"No Cause for Alarm"	p. 129
"Fear of the Hordes"	p. 143
"With a Determined Resolve"	p. 155
"The Crime of the Bureaucrats"	p. 169
Bermuda and Warsaw	p. 187
"We Shall No Longer Witness with Pity Alone"	p. 193
"Relief, Like Water to the Thirsty"	p. 211
Contact with Karski	p. 217
Counterforces	p. 225
A Sense of Agony?	p. 245
Why I Call Myself a Rooseveltian	p. 257
This Is What's Happening	p. 271
A Final Note	p. 289
Endnotes	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 314
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