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The Evian Confrence
President Roosevelt called for an international conference to discuss the growing numbers of Jewish refugees. The Evian Conference, held in France in July 1938, failed to deal with the situation. With the exception of the Dominican Republic, each of the 32 nations represented, including the United States, refused to open its doors to more immigrants.---Rachel Zombeck -
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The Holocaust
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Kristallnacht
Older people believed staying in Germany was safer than starting a new life with no money in a foreign country. Their illusions were destroyed on the night of November 9,1938, when Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues. This incident became known as Kristallnacht, or "Night of the Broken Glass", a reference to the broken windows of the Jewish shops.-----Jenna Crisci -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the impelemention of what they called the Final Solution of the Jewish Question. The "FInal Solution" was the code name for systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. At some still undetermined time in 1941, Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder, Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference to inform. -----Tyler Powell -
War Refugee Board (WRB)
Roosevelt created it to try to help people threatened by the Nazis. Despite its late start it helped save some 200,000 lives. With WRB funding Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews by issuing them special Swedish passports. Its effort to bring Jews to the United States met with less success.---------Madison Gray -
Nuremberg Trials
Hirrified by the death camps and by Germany's conduct during the war, the Allies placed a number of former Nazi leaders on trial. They changed them with crimes. An International Military Tribunal composed of members selected by the United Stated, Great Britian, the Soviet Union, and France conducted the Nuremberg Trials in November 1945. of the 24 Nazi defendants, 12 recieved the death sentence.---Emma Metallo