British Government and the Holocaust: The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership?

Three competing Jewish organisations in London approached the British Government to initiate actions to assist European Jewry. Innumerable talks with Government officials took place and many letters were exchanged. Impatient bureaucrats rejected the parallel requests and proposals in favor of maintaining a strict immigration blockade against Continental Jews. The Jewish organisations - the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the British Section of the World Jewish Congress, and the Chief Rabbi's …