British Government and the Holocaust The

Three competing Jewish organisations in London approached the British Government to initiate actions to assist European Jewry. Innumerable talks with Government officials took place and many letters were exchanged. Impatient bureaucrats rejected the paral

Dr Meier Sompolinsky is an independent researcher who has studied at the universities of Copenhagen, Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan. He has represented the Jewish Agency in Scandinavia, lectured at international conferences on the Holocaust, and published several papers in Yad Vashem Studies.

Acknowledgments

ix

List of Abbreviations

x

Introduction

1

(5)

London Learns of the Final Solution

6

(5)

The Changing Balance of Power in British Jewry

11

(23)

The Board of Deputies of British Jews

11

(5)

The British Section of the World Jewish Congress

16

(4)

The Orthodox and Ultraorthodox

20

(2)

Chief Rabbi Joseph

Herman Hertz

Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld

Harry Goodman

Jewish Leaders in the British Exile

22

(8)

Jewish--Christian Cooperation

30

(4)

The British Blockade of European Jewry

34

(21)

Years of Vacillation: The Jewish Leadership, 1939--1942

55

(21)

Attempts to Break the Blockade and the Meager Results

76

(6)

The Declaration of December 17, 1942

82

(18)

Before and After the Bermuda Conference

100

(19)

The Bermuda Policy and its Opponents

119

(23)

More Splits in the Jewish Community

119

(5)

The Political Struggles of the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror

124

(2)

The Struggle for a New Declaration and Warning Broadcasts

126

(5)

Activities on Behalf of the Jews of France, Italy and Transnistria in the Wake of Changes at the Front

131

(3)

The Council for Rescue of the Jewish Population in Poland

134

(2)

British Adherence and American Withdrawal from the Bermuda Conference Policy

136

(6)

Aid and Rescue Efforts to Comfort the Seablocked

142

(13)

Food Supply

142

(8)

The Adler-Rudel Scheme

150

(5)

The Search for Refugee Havens

155

(6)

The Rescue Efforts of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council

161

(15)

``Rabbis to Mauritius''

161

(6)

``Rabbis to Mauritius'' and Palestine Immigration Policy

167

(4)

The Attempts to Rescue the Jews of Nitra and their Rabbi

171

(2)

Financing Efforts

173

(1)

The Rescue Policy in Rabbi Schonfeld's Eyes

174

(2)

The Ten Million Dollar Illusion

176

(4)

Ireland and the Jews of Europe

180

(16)

Ireland, Britain, Germany, and the Jews

180

(7)

Ireland and Harry Goodman

187

(9)

Reactions to the Crisis of Hungarian Jewry

196

(15)

Last-Minute Rescue Attempts

211

(5)

Notes

216

(48)

Bibliography

264

(3)

Index

267

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