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As the Holocaust Raged, U.S. Newspapers Buried Reports on Hitler's Final Solution
(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - In America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History, published this year, Rafael Medoff, who directs the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, writes: "In the spring of 1942, as the reports of mass murder multiplied and many additional details were relayed to the Free World by reliable sources...instead of questioning Roosevelt administration officials about the emerging genocide, journalists usually avoided the subject altogether." Between 1941 and the end of 1943, Germany and its collaborators murdered most of the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims. "As much more information, including eyewitness reports about the mass killings, reached the outside world in 1943, American Jewish leaders began speaking out more consistently. But the Roosevelt administration routinely suppressed such reports, fearing that publicity would increase public pressure to open America's doors to refugees."