Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
12 - The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
To some leading Labor Zionists, such as Bernard Joseph, the Jewish Agency's counsel, the Holocaust seemed primarily to be damaging the Zionist cause since the Nazis decimated the millions of Jews “that we are claiming home for them … after the war.” Yet the Zionists cultivated hopes that many would–be victims might escape the Holocaust even in Poland, because the process of the Final Solution there was gradual and some ghettos such as Lodz were maintained almost until the end of the war, and that the Jews in the German-allied nations, primarily Rumania and Hungary, might survive.
On the other hand, if the Zionist leadership (once it internalized the Final Solution to its depth, while the “world” remained on one hand too sensitive to everything Jewish but at the same time silent to Jewish pleas for help) conveyed the depth of the trap to the Yishuv, many would blame them for succumbing to it and accuse them of weakness, neglect, and passivity. Their own Zionist credo pushed them to all kinds of rescue efforts that later may have seemed to be mere lip service to the cause or even as searches for an alibi if they were combined with the political aspirations to be discussed in this section. On the other hand, the Allies perceived them as war-damaging or as irrelevant, disturbing, side issues on their own and as being related to the Zionists' political goals.
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- Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews , pp. 102 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004