In late 1941 and early 1942, Western diplomats and journalists received scattered information about Nazi massacres of many thousands of Jews in German-occupied Poland and Russia. But the news was difficult to confirm and sounded to many like the usual travails of war. The turning point came in late May...
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A telegram from the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva to Western leaders played a significant role in revealing the Holocaust to the Free World. During the spring and summer of 1942, the WJC official, 30 year-old attorney Gerhart Riegner, received reports about the Nazis deporting tens...
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Rudolf Vrba (1924-2006), one of the few prisoners to escape from Auschwitz, brought news of the death camp to the free world and helped galvanize the calls for an Allied bombing of the site. On April 7, 1944, as the Germans began preparing to deport Hungary's approximately 800,000 Jews to Auschwitz,...
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