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7 Tamuz - Evian Conference - 1938 Today is the 7th day of the month of Tammuz. On this day in 1938, the Evian Conference began in France. The conference was focused on the refugee problem created by Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Inspired by American President Franklin Delano Rosevelt, historians suggest that his goal was for other countries to take some of the burden and to deflect attention from the very limiting quotas present in the US. 32 countries and 24 humanitarian organizations were present.  Golda Meir was the representative from British Mandatory Palestine but was not allowed to speak or participate. Before the conference, Britain and the US made a pact.  Britain agreed not to bring up the fact that the US was not filling its immigration quotas.  The US agreed not to include the mention of Israel (then controlled by the British) as a possible destination for the Jews on the agenda.  The only countries that made significant commitments to the plight of the Jews were the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.  The major outcome of the conference was that it inadvertently served as a PR piece for the Nazi Regime.  It proved to the world that no one wanted nor cared about the Jews. First President of Modern Israel, Chaim Weizmann was quoted as saying “The world seemed to be divided into two parts – those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter."  This was the pretext for Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish Question.   Things would only get worse from there.   In 1939, the British would issue the infamous White Paper banning Jewish immigration and land purchase in Israel.  By that point, there were already 1,000,000 Jews living under the Nazi regime as “stateless subjects.” A similar lack of action would be seen later in the war when the Allies refused to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the death camp. The allies were well aware of what was going on inside the Nazi death camps by the beginning of 1942 and had specific details of Auschwitz by April of 1944 with the first formal resolutions by the Jewish community to intervene being rejected by July of that year.  By the spring of 1944, the allies had complete control of European airspace and all the intelligence that they needed to stop the camp from functioning. At that point, Auschwitz was killing up to 6,000 people a day.  Just do the math. That was roughly one year before the war came to an end. So around 2,000,000 people were killed during that last year of the war and that quite possibly could have been averted had the Allies taken some action.  Find out more: WhatsApp: bit.ly/WhatsAddMe iTunes: apple.co/2Vxv6kq Spotify: bit.ly/TIJHspot Alexa: amzn.to/2Js9r8h . . . . . #jew #jewish #jewishart #jewishcommunity #jewishculture #jewishfood #jewishgirl #jewishhistory #jewishholidays #jewishlife #jewishnewyear #jewishpride #jews #judaism #kosher #love #neveragain #hebrew #shabbat #holocaust #shabbatshalom #israel #jerusalem

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With allies like that, who needs enemies?

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