Credit: Hakim Young/Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt asking her as First Lady to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he wrote. But the U.S. government chose not to heed Einstein’s appeal. The following year, some 2.7 million Jews—nearly half of all Jewish victims of the Holocaust—were annihilated.
