Franklin D. Roosevelt and The Holocaust
Wednesday 19 October 2022 from 1pm to 2pm
Join us online with Dean J. Kotlowski for a seminar discussing Franklin D. Roosevelt, paying special attention to the president’s views on Jews and his response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s as well as his wartime decisions and policies.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is ranked as one of America’s greatest presidents. Yet historians have harshly criticized Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust. The President presided over a discriminatory immigration policy, did little to assist Jewish refugees during the 1930s, and declined to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Speaker: Professor Dean J. Kotlowski
Dean J. Kotlowski is a professor of history at Salisbury University. He has served as an historical adviser to the National Archives, Richard Nixon Library, and U.S. Mint. His next book, Toward Self-Determination: Federal Indian Policy from Truman to Clinton, is under contract with University of North Carolina Press.
Image: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia, 1930, National Archives and Records Administration.