FDR and the Holocaust / edited by Verne W. Newton.

Partly consists of materials from a conference held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library on Nov. 11-12, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transcript of the summary of the Conference on "Policies and responses of the American government toward the Holocaust," 11-12 November 1993 -- The burden of being human : an essay on selected scholarship of the Holocaust / Karen J. Greenberg -- Roosevelt as foreign policy leader / Robert Dallek -- "Courage first and intelligence second" : the American Jewish secular elite, Roosevelt, and the failure to rescue / Henry L. Feingold -- Was there communal failure? : some thoughts on the American Jewish response to the Holocaust / Henry L. Feingold -- Roosevelt and the Holocaust / Richard Breitman -- The failure to provide a safe haven for European Jewry / Richard Breitman -- Review of David Wyman's The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 / Henry L. Feingold -- Bystanders to the Holocaust : (review of Monty Penkower's The Jews were expendable : free world diplomacy and the Holocaust and David Wyman's The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945) / Michael R. Marrus -- Did FDR betray the Jews? : or did he do more than anyone else to save them? / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- An amplification / William J. vanden Heuvel -- Allied knowledge of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943-1944 / Richard Breitman -- The bombing of Auschwitz reexamined / James H. Kitchens III -- The bombing of Auschwitz revisited : a critical analysis / Richard H. Levy.