Category: Learn History Through Fiction

After WW2, Congress refused to allow Germans in Displaced Persons (DP) camps to immigrate to the U.S., except for several thousand Nazi collaborators and scientists whose expertise could help us fight the cold war against the Soviets. The secret intelligence program was dubbed “Operation Paperclip.” History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Holocaust deniers are no longer a fringe group. They’ve been given space, room to grow, and positive media coverage by some national leaders. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Pleas from Jewish leaders to help save Europe’s Jews were largely ignored. Many members of the U.S. State Department, led by Cordell Hull, were anti-Semitic. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Unlike the mainstream white press, Black newspapers put the killing of Europe’s Jews on the front page, likening Nazis to southern white racists. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

U.S. news coverage of the Holocaust was intentionally suppressed. Its horrors only became known after GIs liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

In 1939, 90% of Americans opposed declaring war on Germany; 95% were against admitting more Jews. In 1941, after Pearl Harbor, resistance to entering the war decreased but not opposition to admitting Jews. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

U.S. papers buried intelligence reports about Nazis murdering Jews, of no concern to most Americans. Instead they played up WW2 as an anti-fascist fight for freedom. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

The U.S. issued visas to 25,000 refugees escaping the Nazis, including Jews, but refused 800,000 on the waiting list, most of whom perished. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

The restrictive quota system for southern and Eastern European Jews predated Nazism, going back to the 1920s, and perpetuated by antisemitism, xenophobia, and national security concerns that suspected Jews of being communists. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

“We did not lift a hand to help the Jews — or perhaps it would be fairer to say that we lifted just one cautious hand, encased in a tight-fitting glove of quotas and a thick layer of prejudice” (Freda Kirchwey, Editor-in-Chief, The Nation). History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.