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Debating America’s Response To The Holocaust With The U.S. Holocaust Museum

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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

As witness President Clinton’s painful regrets over Rwanda, no amount of hindsight can ever change that fundamental moral imperative, which should be a lodestar for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Gregory J. Wallance, the author of “America’s Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of An American Aristocracy,” is a lawyer and writer in New York City, and a veteran of many human rights missions around the world. The full written exchange between the author and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can be found at www.americassoulinthebalance.com.

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About the Author: Gregory J. Wallance is a lawyer in New York City and longtime human rights activist. He is the author, most recently, of “America’s Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy.” An e-book version of the book is being released this month, with a foreword by Michael Berenbaum, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Research Institute.


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  1. Wallace should know over 30 million American Indian were killed in N. America. As late as 1865 still being shot in the back? What's 7,500 Jews? In any case, dates are important when discussing who knew what when. I doubt this is earlier than when Thomas Mann went negative on Nazi Germany.

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