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US Bill to Save Refugee Children Hits Wall of Anti-Semitism

Season 1 Episode 2 | 6m 39s

In 1939, two senators introduced a bill to help refugee children enter the United States. It was backed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt 鈥 and opposed by the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies. But no group was more adamantly opposed to admitting Jewish refugees than the German American Bund, led by the 鈥淎merican Fuhrer.鈥

Corporate funding provided by Bank of America. Major funding provided by David M. Rubenstein; the Park Foundation; the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation; Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; and by the following members of The Better Angels Society: Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine; Jan and Rick Cohen; Allan and Shelley Holt; the Koret Foundation; David and Susan Kreisman; Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder; Blavatnik Family Foundation; Crown Family Philanthropies, honoring the Crown and Goodman Families; the Fullerton Family Charitable Fund; Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky; The Russell Berrie Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; John and Catherine Debs; and Leah Joy Zell and the Joy Foundation. Funding was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
Extras
Asking how we as a society can learn from the past.
Asking if the U.S. has a responsibility to intervene in humanitarian crises.
Asking what it means to be a land of immigrants.
Asking what individuals can do when governments fail to act.
As war begins, some Americans work tirelessly to help refugees; others remain indi铿erent.
As the Allies liberate German camps, the public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.
Reversing open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration.
Una reacci贸n xen贸foba lleva al Congreso a restringir la inmigraci贸n.
Los Aliados liberan los campos Alemanes y el p煤blico ve la magnitud del Holocausto.
En la guerra, algunos estadounidenses ayudan a los refugiados; otros son indiferentes.