Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust

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the SS (Catledge, 1974). FDR was also a firm believer of the WagnerRogers bill, which if passed by congress would have given twenty- thousand Jewish children freedom into the U.S. However, this bill never found its way to FDR's desk.
Anti-Semitism in America was at an all time high during this time, maybe one reason why the WagnerRogers bill never passed through congress. Individuals like Brechenridge Long of the State Department, and Assistant Secretary of the War Department, John McCloy, were both anti-Jewish. Both of them did little to help the Jews; they often withheld important rescue and death camp news from FDR. Why should FDR be accountable for information he did not receive ?
FDR also saved two hundred thousand Jews during the war by establishing the War Refugee Board under Executive Order 9417. The WRB was established by FDR in January of 1944, after he received a report from Henry Morganthau (Blum, 1976, p.180). This report focused primarily on the State ...

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