THE EVIAN CONFERENCE: HOW THE WORLD BETRAYED THE JEWS?!

Witnesses of the Past

Witnesses of the Past

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BIBLIOGRAPHY :

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Holocaust Encyclopedia — "Emigration and the Evian Conference," "Refugees," "German Jewish Refugees, 1933–1939," "The United States and the Refugee Crisis, 1938–41"
Yad Vashem — The Evian Conference and Jewish refugee policy archives
Jewish Virtual Library — "The Evian Conference, July 1938"; "The Bermuda Conference, April 1943"
Wikipedia — "Évian Conference," "MS St. Louis," "Bermuda Conference," "1938 expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany," "Frederick Blair"
The Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies — Bermuda Conference historical archive
The Holocaust Explained (UK, educational resource) — "Emigration, 1933–1941," "The Bermuda Conference"
Facing History and Ourselves — Evian Conference country statement archive
Rescue in the Holocaust / Holocaust Rescue chronology project
Israel Education (israeled.org) — Bermuda Conference timeline
Ghent University Library — "The eventful birth of a refugee policy in Belgium (1918–1940)"
H-Net Reviews — review of Meinen & Meyer, Belgian refugee policy research
National Archives / Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) — Bermuda Conference correspondence, 1943
Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948 (1982) — origin of the phrase discussed in the Frederick Blair segment
Contemporary press citations from Evian, 1938: Völkischer Beobachter (Nazi party press response)