The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945
#749 of 3,809 books · #278 in History
Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1985). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
The Abandonment of the Jews is the definitive work on its subject. The text argues how a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the US almost certainly could have saved thousands of the Nazi's victims.
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1985)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1984)
Other awarded books from David S. Wyman
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