American Response To The Holocaust

History has repeated itself once again. This nation has witnessed atrocious acts from neighboring countries throughout its past and to this day it observes many disasters that are taking place. Not too long ago, hundreds of thousands of Jews faced the mass genocide of the Nazis, which in comparison to today’s crisis, Syrians are facing persecution from ISIL. Although the events took place in different time periods and have distinctive qualities, the American responses over refugees and persecutions of the critical situations that developed share similar patterns. It has not been a century since the Holocaust took place. Those who were Jews, homosexuals, disabled, gypsies, poles, Jehovah’s witnesses, and political dissidents were the people that faced oppression under the Nazis. Given Hitler’s mastermind of propaganda and inculcation of anti-Semitism and hatred against these particular groups, led to the infamous, “Final Solution”– which was the massive killing operations of Jews working to death and the S.S. shooting or gassing them. (“Final Solution:” Overview;” “Nazi Party”). Although the majority of the world was not aware about the full extent of his …show more content…
It was not until 1942 when information about the Nazi policy to murder Jews began to reach the U.S. public, and 1943 when the crisis received enough public awareness in America. Following this occurrence, came across the War Refugee Board in which a group of people were committed to saving the lives of those facing persecution. Though the organization made an impact and managed to save many potential victims, it was already too late; the majority of the people died. As an effect, the U.S.Government declined to respond soon enough and failed to save thousands of lives destroyed in the