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Holocaust and the Response of the United States

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might add, that can boast fewer and fewer actual survivors left to tell the tale first hand, the debate still rages about whether the holocaust has been shown in the  actual and factual light that it should reside in. Four distinguished authors have presented their views on various topics related to the Holocaust such as: How much did the United  States know of atrocities against the Jewish population during the war? Peter Novick, in his The Holocaust in American Life, seems to believe that as of the last  part of the twentieth century the Holocaust has been mentioned more as an American memory as well as a Jewish one. One finds that odd in reflection as the atrocities,  and we know now that there were many, were perpetuated against Jews who were not living in the United States, but had been born and lived in countries overseas. To  most of the population living in the United States at the time of the war, the Jews that were supposedly suffering,(the term supposedly being used, here, in context that most  US citizens did not know of the crimes against Jews at the time) were a nameless, faceless group and while there was a certain sympathy, Novick contends, most of the  American public went on with their lives unaffected. It is interesting to note that Novick attributes more of the Jewish awareness of the Holocaust to the latter part of the  twentieth century, where a rallying cry of never again was taken up by Holocaust survivors and was supported by lobbyists and other groups whose best interests were better served by  aligning themselves with many well placed citizens, who just happened to be of Jewish decent. In large part the movement of the Holocaust from the Jewish to the general American