Primary Sources

Key Documents Table of Contents:

1. 1917 Regulating Immigration of Aliens Act
2. 1922 Palestine Mandate
3. 1924 National Origins Act
4. 1924 Anglo-American Convention
5. 1935 (Oct) Sherrill Warning About Anti-Semitic Backlash
6. 1938 (January)Wise-FDR Memo
7. 1938 (March) Icke Diary Entry (Censorship of FDR anti-Nazi speech)
8. 1938 (July) Evian Conference Decisions
9. 1939 (Jan) Hitler’s Speech to the Reichstag on the Jewish Question
10. 1939 (May) Roosevelt Memo re: White Paper
11. 1939 (May) White Paper
12. 1939 (May) Churchill White Paper Speech
13. 1939 (June) Dee Ny Letter (Little girl/St. Louis)
14. 1939 March Plans of Republic of China to Make Room for Jewish Refugees
15. 1940 Long Postpone
16. 1941 (Sept) DeMoines Speech by Charles Lindbergh
17. 1942 (Jan) Molotov Paper on Nazi Atrocities
18. 1942 (Aug) Reigner Telegram
19. 1942 (Sept) Letter from Taylor to Vatican (Describing persecution of Polish Jews)
20. 1942 (Dec) Eden Declaration
21. 1942 Dec 10 Memo Regarding the Mass Extermination of Jews in Poland
22. 1943 (Jan) Roosevelt comments to Nogues at Casablanca Conference (re: Jews flooding professions)
23. 1943 (May) Zygielbojm Suicide Letter
24. 1943 (Oct) Moscow Conference (With Statement on Atrocities)
25. 1943 (Oct) FDR Schedule (Showing that he could have met with rabbis)
26. 1944 DuBois Report
27. 1944 Gallup Poll re: “Haven for Jews”
28. 1944 McCloy Letter discouraging bombing of Nazi railways
29. 1944 McNarney Memo reflecting “Rescue through Victory”
30. 1944 Immigration Chart
31. 1948 Dec 9 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
32. 2001 ICISS Responsibility to Protect