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FDR and the Holocaust. Ed. by Verne W. Newton. (New York: St. Martin's, 1996. x, 278 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-312-12226-8.)
While FDR and the Holocaust discusses the American response to the extermination of European Jewry, one of its main missions is to respond to David S. Wyman's major books, Paper Walls (1968) and The Abandonment of theJews (1984). Specifically, this work, collected and collated by Verne W. Newton, the director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, maintains that Wyman's indictment of the Roosevelt administration for failing to respond adequately to the Holocaust is overly judgmental and lacking in historical analysis and balance.
This volume originated in a November 1993 conference on "Policies and Responses of the American Government toward the Holocaust." Approximately the first twenty-five pages of FDR and the Holocaust are devoted to a summary...