America and the Holocaust: Myth versus Reality

Winchester Academy Presents: America and the Holocaust: Myth versus Reality

Speaker: Tim Crain, PhD, Former director of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University​

The Holocaust took the lives of nearly six million Jews between 1941 and 1945. The US government knew that the mass murder of the Jews was taking place in 1942, but did little to stop the genocide. This presentation will explore the American response to the Holocaust, as well as review what could have been done to end the mass murder. The US believed that the best way to rescue Jews was to win World War II as rapidly as possible. The decision remains controversial.

This program is sponsored by all of us in memory of Glenda Rhodes.