○  the perils of indifference  ○

secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war against the jews that hitler's armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the allies. if they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene. they would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. they would have bombed the railways leading to birkenau, just the railways, just once.

and now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the pentagon knew, the state department knew. and the illustrious occupant of the white house then, who was a great leader -- and i say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death -- franklin delano roosevelt died on april the 12th, 1945. so he is very much present to me and to us. no doubt, he was a great leader. he mobilized the american people and the world, going into battle, bringing hundreds and thousands of valiant and brave soldiers in america to fight fascism, to fight dictatorship, to fight hitler. and so many of the young people fell in battle. and, nevertheless, his image in jewish history -- i must say it -- his image in jewish history is flawed.

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