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The Nazi rise to power and the outbreak of the Second World War created an unprecedented refugee crisis that individual Jews and Jewish communities in Europe, Jewish social welfare organizations, and the Allies endeavored to address. They focused on assisting refugees, while providing relief to Jews in occupied Europe. Despite innumerable challenges, these efforts saved the lives of tens of thousands who would otherwise have been victims of the Nazi regime.

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This chapter focuses on policies of the Allies from 1941 until 1945. Responding to the news about the mass extermination of the Jews, individuals and Jewish organizations lobbied for making declarations denouncing Nazi atrocities and taking diplomatic and political measures. This chapter shows the complexity of Allied attitudes, logistical and political considerations, actions, and inactions with regard to the fate of the Jews in Europe. In particular, it concerns the response to the destruction of Hungarian Jewry, the rescue initiatives and role of Roul Wallenberg, and the refusal to bomb Auschwitz.

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29 - International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945

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29 - International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945

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30 - The Allies and the Holocaust

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