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

Three competing Jewish organizations 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. Inpatient bureaucrats rejected the parallel requests and proposals in favor of maintaining a strict immigration blockade anainst Continental Jews. The Jewish organizations - the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the British section of the World Jewish Congress, and the Chief Rabbi's …