Did any American Jews die in the Holocaust?

Not only did the Holocaust have nowhere near the centrality in consciousness that it had from the 1970s on, but for the overwhelming majority of Americans — and, once again, this included a great many ... The murderous actions of the Nazi regime, which killed between five and six million European Jews, were all too real. read more

While I don’t want to duplicate an existing answer, I wanted to note that Rivka provided a link to an article on the website of Dr. Mitchell Bard, a well known American scholar of Jewish history. read more

Americans were in virtually every major concentration camp, including Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen. Americans were also in the Warsaw Ghetto. The reason American citizens wound up in camps has much to do with what the U.S. Government did, and, more often, did not do to save its own citizens. read more