Cyrus Vance (1917-2002) served as secretary of state from 1977 to 1980, in the administration of Jimmy Carter. While visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust center on February 16, 1977, Vance took note of a display that included a letter from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy rejecting an appeal to bomb...
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Journalist and civil rights activist Oswald Villard (1872-1949) added his name to several public protests on behalf of European Jewry. Born in Germany but raised in the United States, Villard was one of fifty prominent German-Americans to sign a full-page newspaper advertisement in December 1942...
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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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