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Jewish World Review
May 5, 2005
/ 26 Nissan, 5765
FDR didn't give a damn about the Jews — nor did the NYTimes, which brought Jewish self-hatred to a head long before the rubric gained popularity
By
Sidney Zion
New book documents with painstaking precision story nobody else would
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It's a given that The New York Times ignored the Holocaust, a sin of omission confessed by the paper itself.
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Now we have a book that says it ain't so — that from the beginning to the end of World War II, The Times published 1,186 stories about the extermination of the European Jews. It just buried the stories inside.
"Buried by The Times" is the title of the book, and it's more damning by far than anything the critics ever said about the paper's coverage of the worst mass murder in history.
This book proves that The Times not only knew about the Holocaust but printed many of the horrific details. In the six years of the war, just 26 pieces made the front page, half of them in 1944, when most of the Jews were dead. And only a half-dozen mentioned that Jews were the victims.
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"This important book answers—in a compelling fashion—some of the questions which have long been asked about the New York Times' coverage of the Holocaust. Probing far behind the headlines, Leff tells the fascinating story of how the Sulzberger family was rescuing its relatives from Germany at the same time that it was burying the story of the Holocaust in the inner recesses of the paper." — Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust Sales help fund JWR. |
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The author, Laurel Leff, a professor of journalism and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has done a fine job of research in the archives of the paper of record. Others could have done that, but nobody has. More important, she has brilliantly analyzed the reasons Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the German-Jewish publisher of The Times, brought Jewish self-hatred to a head long before the rubric gained popularity.
In 1939, when the Nazis began to destroy the Jews of Poland, what bothered Sulzberger was Franklin Roosevelt's casual remark that Jews were a "race." He got FDR to call them a "faith," which settled the issue of the Warsaw Ghetto for him.
On the eve of Thanksgiving 1942, the State Department confirmed that 2 million Jews were dead in Europe, and it allowed Rabbi Stephen Wise, the leader of American Jewry, to announce the news. The Times didn't send a reporter to the press conference in Washington. Instead, it ran a short from The Associated Press — on page 10, surrounded by turkey ads.
What if FDR had announced the news? Then, even a scared Jew like Sulzberger would have been afraid to keep it off the front page. And if that happened, millions of Jews could have been saved.
But Roosevelt didn't give a damn about the Jews. When the chips were down, they were expendable. He never lifted a finger to save them, and when faced with the 1944 election, for the first time he spoke out against the massacre and it made page 1: "Roosevelt Warns Germans on Jews."
If I have a cavil about this wonderful book, it's that the author doesn't blame FDR enough. It doesn't excuse Sulzberger, who, as a publisher should have exposed the Holocaust by himself. But we should remember that even Moses needed help at the Red Sea.
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JWR contributor and veteran journalist Sidney Zion is a columnist for the New York Daily News. Comment by clicking here.
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