Program For the Rescue of Jews from Nazi Occupied Europe. Submitted to the Bermuda Refugee Conference.

(HOLOCAUST).

for the Joint Emergency Committee for European Jewish Affairs

New York

April, 1943

With: 3-page typed letter (copy) to Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, co-chairman of the Joint Emergency Committee for European Jewish Affairs.

By the end of 1942 it was clear that the German-Nazis intended to exterminate all of European Jewry. Jewish groups in the United States and United Kingdom beseeched their governments to take defensive action. The Bermuda Refugee Conference was convened to discuss the issue, however, with neither the U.S. immigration quotas lifted, nor British prohibition of Jewish refuge in Palestine removed, the conference did not save a single Jew. According to a 1943 New York Times article, the conference was indeed a “cruel mockery” (May 4th, p. 17).