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How American's Rejection of Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany Haunts Our Refugee Policy Today

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's important to remember why America welcomes refugees.
by Dara Lind via Vox on January 27, 2017

A Twitter Tribute to Holocaust Victims

A conversation with the creator of a new social-media project that commemorates refugees the United States turned away in 1939.
by Russel Neiss, Candice Norwood via The Atlantic on January 27, 2017

What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.
by Ishaan Tharoor via Washington Post on November 17, 2015
Ken Burns speaking into a microphone.

Shaming Americans

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.
by Amity Shlaes via City Journal on January 9, 2023
Crowds of people filling Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.
by James McAuley via The New Yorker on September 18, 2022
The first two panels of "Nazi Death Parade," a six-panel comic depicting the mass murder of Jews at a Nazi concentration camp August Maria Froehlich / Arco Publishing Company.

The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers

In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.
by Esther Bergdahl via Smithsonian on May 24, 2022

Closing Our Doors

In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S.
by Ellen Umansky via Slate on March 8, 2017

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