Laska on the Holocaust (Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust):●the American press was making the situation of the Jews clear from the first place●press groups like the Guardian would publish pieces on the gory reality of how concentration camps were○Germany already boasted about the existence of it, but only about for political prisoners●US congressman Mitchell, who was black, wrote to Roosevelt●in october 1941 NYT wrote about Hungarians and Jews being slaughtered●by summer 1942 both Americans and the British knew what was going on○a German story from a Polish survivor of Auschwitz○no word about gas chambers in the account, though○catholic priests, as well as Jews, were killed●in 1942, an NYT article finally mentions the gas chambers and that Gypsies are killed○includes that 1/6 of European Jews have been exterminated○less than 2% chosen for slave labor●mass murder, gassing, and electrocution●Rabbi Stephen S Wise was the president of the American and the World Jewish Congress, so he was able to give exact figures and calculated that 2.2 million Jews had been killed by November 1942●the corpses were used to create soap, fats, and fertilizer●the figures given by American press is relatively accurate, which is surprising because no journalist had first hand knowledge on the camps●Britain fully acknowledged the murder, but did nothing because the Palestine issue continued and Jews fromHungary were planning on coming to Britain●Time magazine urged the US and UN to do something for the Jews●
