By the time WW2 in Europe had started (1939) it was rather late as international transport routes were disrupted.
Despite the difficulties, the U.S., Sweden and the USSR still took in handful. (In the case of the USSR it was 'strictly Communists only').
As for other suggestions sometimes made, bombing Auschwitz wasn't practical.
Some countries took in very few Jews before the start of WW2 - Turkey and New Zealand took in fewer than 1,000 Jews each, for example. Anti-semitism (in the sense of prejudice and dislike not in the sense of wanting to murder Jews) was widespread at the time. Moreover, as a result of the Great Depression, jobs were scarce everywhere. What's more a lot of people just didn't care.
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Because governments were busy trying to help their own citizens to survive and did not want more people to take care of.
1. The extermination camps were all in Poland, which is difficult to reach from Western Europe. 2. Until about May or June 1944 the exact location of the camps was not known to the Allies. 3. The Allies didn't give any priority to saving the victims. In other words, I don't think they cared.
1. The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 disrupted international communications, and there was further disruption after the German invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940.
2. In August 1941 Jews were foribidden to leave Germany and German-occupied countries. Before that they had been allowed to leave, provided they had somewhere to go to and could actually get there. However, they had to pay ever increasing sums for permission to leave.
It's hard for any country to accept a massive amount of immigrants...(even though the Jews were actually citizens of many of the countries that rejected them...)
whether it be Jews, Irish, Rwandan refugees etc....a country must decide its policy regarding immigrants...
During the Holocaust all the Jews were forced out of their homes all over Europe and gathered into concentration camps... after WW2 ended Many Jews had no where to turn, The European countries had been hit by the war and did not like the idea of letting in an influx of people....Many Jews were scared/ turned off by staying in post Nazi Europe and feared for their safety...many fled to the US, Australia, and many other countries...including Israel...where there was always a Jewish presence...even before it was a British mandate and even through the crusades and back 4000 years)
There were various reasons put forward such as "they will make us poorer", "they will drain our social welfare", "they don't speak [mother tongue of country]", and numerous others, but the bottom line was that no world leader honestly wanted to act in the best interests of humanity and save people from extermination.
there is not a simple answer, but basically because they did not want to.
The ususally accepted figure is about six million.
about 65 million Jews died or got buried alive.
The exact number of Jews saved in the holocaust is impossible to calculate. It is recorded that in Denmark, 7,220 of its 8,000 Jews were saved by fellow citizens. Thousands in other countries were also saved by friends and neighbors as they were or smuggled into safe countries. Many Jews fled before the worst of the holocaust was upon them, while others pretended to be non-Jewish. The numbers liberated from the infamous death camps by allied forces is also uncertain, but the numbers are in the tens of thousands if not higher.
Generally, Jews from Western and Central Europe spoke the languages of the countries they lived in (such as German in the case of German and Austrian Jews, French in the case of French Jews), and many East European Jews spoke Yiddish.
Yes, atleast 7 Million Jews died in the Holocaust.
no the Jews were not accepted in their new homes
some accepted them as migrants.
The ususally accepted figure is about six million.
about 65 million Jews died or got buried alive.
The United States.
Definately more excepted!! Especially after the Holocaust . . . : (
The Axis History Forum gives the figure as 77,000. (This does not include Jews transported to Latvia from other countries and killed there. Latvia was used as a killing-field for Jews from other countries, especially Germany).
Prejudice affected Jews during the Holocaust because even before the Holocaust it was all around the and during the Holocaust because the Nazi's and the SS enforced it heavily. Non-Jews were affected by it because it made them look at it with a whole new perspective.
the countries of the Pale of Settlement had the most Jews and also lost the most.
It sounds as if you are confusing the holocaust (genocide and mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, political opponents and other by the Nazis) with World War 2.
They were treated in the same way as other Jews: one couldn't buy oneself out of the Holocaust.
The exact number of Jews saved in the holocaust is impossible to calculate. It is recorded that in Denmark, 7,220 of its 8,000 Jews were saved by fellow citizens. Thousands in other countries were also saved by friends and neighbors as they were or smuggled into safe countries. Many Jews fled before the worst of the holocaust was upon them, while others pretended to be non-Jewish. The numbers liberated from the infamous death camps by allied forces is also uncertain, but the numbers are in the tens of thousands if not higher.