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America and the Holocaust: Primary sources
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/reference/
primary/index.html
Reproductions of a number of documents to do with the Allies’ knowledge of and attitude towards the extermination camps. Ten of the documents have to do with the possible bombing of Auschwitz, and one comprises extracts from a report of the US bombing of the I G Farben factory that was part of the camp.
Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau?
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/
bombau.html
Article by Mitchell Bard that examines the different views on the subject.
Kitty Hart-Moxon
www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/resources/
survivorstories/hartmoxon.asp
Trude Levi
www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/resources/
survivorstories/levi.asp
Freddie Knoller
www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/resources/
survivorstories/knoller.asp
The stories of three Auschwitz survivors, all of whom appear in Auschwitz: The forgotten evidence. Only part of each of these stories is available on website, but the rest can be downloaded as PDFs.
The Jewish Museum + London’s Museum of Jewish Life
www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
Website of the two-site museum. The Museum of Jewish Life in Finchley, London, addresses the Holocaust through the story of Leon Greenman, the British-born Auschwitz survivor who appears in Auschwitz: The forgotten evidence). He visits the museum on Sundays to talk to visitors.
The Holocaust Chronicle
www.holocaustchronicle.org/index.html
A website containing the entire contents of the book The Holocaust Chronicle, published in 2000. On page 507 is a discussion of whether Auschwitz should have been bombed by the Allies.
The Holocaust History Project
www.holocaust-history.org
A free archive of documents, photos, recordings and essays about the Holocaust. Has comprehensive FAQs, including a question-and-answer e-mail service, plus eyewitness accounts and family history.
World War Two: How the Allies won
www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
how_the_allies_won_01.shtml
Article by Professor Richard Overy (who appears in Auschwitz: The forgotten evidence), outlining the reasons for the Allied victory. Includes a discussion of how the Allied bombing campaign was decisive to this success.
The Holocaust on Trial
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/
holocaust/index.html
A summary of the David Irving 'Holocaust denial' court case and the issues it raised, plus a discussion of what 'Holocaust denial' is, a timeline and resources. Contains an article by David Cesarani, professor of modern Jewish history at Southampton University and director of the Wiener Library, London, who appears in Auschwitz: The forgotten evidence.
Books
The Myth of Rescue: Why the democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis by William D Rubinstein (Routledge, 1999)
Arguing that the rescue of the Jewish people has been consistently misinterpreted, this book states that few Jews who perished in the Holocaust could have been saved by any action of the Allies. It also considers the question of bombing Auschwitz.
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Auschwitz and the Allies by Martin Gilbert (Pimlico, 2001
When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be the complete annihilation of the Jews, he did so in public. The Allies heard but did nothing. In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots repeatedly photographed Auschwitz: the pictures were filed away. The testimonies of escapees were also ignored. Why?
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S Wyman (The New Press, 1998) Out of print; may be available from second-hand bookshops or libraries.
Contending that a substantial commitment by the US to rescue Jewish people could have saved hundreds of thousands of Nazi victims, this book responds to controversies surrounding the role of the Swiss, French, Americans and others during that period. Wyman also shows that, while the Nazis were the murderers, the Americans were all-too-passive accomplices.
Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart-Moxon (House of Stratus, 2000)
Kitty Hart-Moxon was just 12 at the outbreak of World War II and 15 when she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz. Amazingly she managed to survive the daily terror that she faced and was eventually freed from the camp by US troops in 1945. Since then, she has become a recognised authority on Auschwitz. This is her personal testimony of her time there and her subsequent return.
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Justice Delayed: How Britain became a refuge for Nazi war criminals by David Cesarani (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)Written by a former researcher for the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group, this book exposes the use made of Nazi collaborators by British intelligence and the post-war cover-up and provides in-depth background to the first war crimes trials in Britain for 50 years.
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