![]() ![]() By June 1944, the Germans had removed more than half of Hungary’s 750,000 Jews, and some Jewish leaders were asking the Allies to bomb railways from Hungary to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. In early 1942, he had been given information that Adolf Hitler was quietly fulfilling his threat to “annihilate the Jewish race.” Rabbi Stephen Wise asked the President that December 1942 to inform the world about “the most overwhelming disaster of Jewish history” and “try to stop it.” Although he was willing to warn the world about the impending catastrophe and insisted that there be war crimes commissions when the conflict was over, Roosevelt told Wise that punishment for such crimes would probably have to await the end of the fighting, so his own solution was to “win the war.” The problem with this approach was that by the time of an Allied victory, much of world Jewry might have been annihilated. ![]() “As Allied forces moved into Hitler’s Fortress Europe, Roosevelt and his circle were confronted with new evidence of the Holocaust. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When her boss is laid up with a complicated pregnancy, Lo gets to step in and go on a once-in-a-lifetime luxury cruise aboard The Aurora. Our intrepid narrator/sleuth is Lo Blacklock, a writer for a high-end travel magazine, Velocity. It’s also a big ‘ol middle finger to gaslighting and to dismissing women with anxiety or depression as “crazy” or untrustworthy, and let me tell you, I loved that so much. ![]() It would have been a one-sitting book except I started it before work and had to, you know, actually show up. The mystery maintains a good pace too, and once I started reading I had to finish that same day. It’s a creepy locked room mystery with an amazing narrator, a couple of good red herrings, and lot of delicious twists. 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