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The Bermuda Conference was an international conference between the United Kingdom and the United States held from April 19 to 30, 1943, at
Bermuda Conference
from Yad Vashem's Shoa Research Centre
The Allies' Refugee Conference--A "Cruel Mockery" by Dr. Rafael MedoffBermuda Conference (Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust)
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The Bermuda Conference was an international conference between the United Kingdom and the United States held from April 19 to 30, 1943, at Hamilton, Bermuda
The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a major port and tourist destination. Its population of 854 (2016) is one of the sm ...
. The topic of discussion was the question of Jewish refugees
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.
who had been liberated by Allied forces and those who still remained in Nazi-occupied Europe. The only agreement reached was that the war must be won against the Nazis. US immigration quotas were not raised, and the British prohibition on Jewish refugees seeking refuge in Mandatory Palestine was not lifted.
The American delegation was led by Dr. Harold W. Dodds. The British delegation was led by Richard Law, a junior minister at the Foreign Office.
Reaction
An article in '' The New York Times'' dated April 30, 1943, "Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions", stated that the delegates had rejected recommendations that were not capable of being accomplished under war conditions and that would most likely delay the war effort. A week later, the Zionist Committee for a Jewish Army ran an advertisement in ''The New York Times'' condemning the efforts at Bermuda as a mockery of past promises to the Jewish people and of Jewish suffering under German Nazi occupation."To 5,000,000 Jews in the Nazi Death-Trap Bermuda was a Cruel Mockery", ''The New York Times'', May 4, 1943, p. 17. US Senator Harry S. Truman withdrew his membership from the committee over what was perceived as an insult to members of the US Senate, which had been involved in the conference.Szmul Zygielbojm
Szmul Mordko Zygielbojm (; yi, שמואל זיגלבוים; – ) was a Polish socialist politician, Bund trade-union activist, and member of the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile.
Zygielbojm was born in 1895 into a w ...
, a member of the Jewish advisory body to the Polish government-in-exile, committed suicide in protest at the outcome of the conference.
See also
* Évian Conference in 1938 * International response to the Holocaust * Jewish refugees from German-occupied Europe in the United KingdomReferences
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Bermuda Conference
from Yad Vashem's Shoa Research Centre
The Allies' Refugee Conference--A "Cruel Mockery" by Dr. Rafael Medoff
on The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies World War II conferences International response to the Holocaust History of Bermuda Bermuda in World War II Diplomatic conferences in Bermuda 1943 conferences 1943 in Bermuda The Holocaust and the United Kingdom The Holocaust and the United States 1943 in international relations United Kingdom–United States relations 20th century in Hamilton, Bermuda April 1943 events 1943 in Judaism