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THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS -- AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1941-1945

 by David S. Wyman © 1984 by David S. Wyman
Foreword © 1985 by Elie Wiesel
Preface to the 2007 Edition © 2007 by David S. Wyman

For Midgie because of the smell of summer earth after the rain, roses by the study gate, the magic of the shooting star, and all the rest.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Elie Wiesel
• Preface to the 2007 Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1:  Background
  • Chapter 1:  The Setting:  Europe and America
• Part II:  "A Plan to Exterminate All Jews"
  • Chapter 2:  The News Filters Out
  • Chapter 3:  The Worst is Confirmed
• Part III:  Fourteen Lost Months
  • Chapter 4:  First Steps
  • Chapter 5:  Struggle for Action
  • Chapter 6:  Bermuda
  • Chapter 7:  Paper Walls and Paper Plans
  • Chapter 8:  The Emergency Committee
  • Chapter 9:  The Zionists
  • Chapter 10:  The Cabinet War
  • Chapter 11:  The Rescue Resolution
• Part IV:  The War Refugee Board
  • Chapter 12:  "When Are the Americans Coming?"
  • Chapter 13:  Hungary
  • Chapter 14:  "Late and Little"
  • Chapter 15:  The Bombing of Auschwitz
• Part V:  Conclusion
  • Chapter 16:  Responsibility
• Afterword
• Appendix A:  Easter at Bermuda, 1943
• Appendix B:  The Conflict Between the Regular Zionists and the Bergsonites
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index