
A Plea to Churchill and Roosevelt During the Holocaust
Clip: Season 50 Episode 10 | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
A politician in exile writes to Churchill and Roosevelt to intervene in the Holocaust.
Szmul Zygielbojm, a Polish and Jewish politician in exile in London, writes a letter Churchill and Roosevelt, begging them to intervene in the Holocaust.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...

A Plea to Churchill and Roosevelt During the Holocaust
Clip: Season 50 Episode 10 | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Szmul Zygielbojm, a Polish and Jewish politician in exile in London, writes a letter Churchill and Roosevelt, begging them to intervene in the Holocaust.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship"Prime Minster Churchill, President Roosevelt, in the name of the Jews who are being murdered in vast numbers behind the gates of the ghetto, I turn to your governments with this last desperate appeal.
Of the three and a half million Jews from before the war, there now remain alive no more than a few thousand.
The surviving Jews of Poland beg you to find the means to save them.
Try to imagine the people who see their loved ones dragged away to their deaths everyday, and each one knows that their turn must come.
Imagine the great crime of methodically massacring's an entire people.
The conscience of every person must be shaken by the greatest crime in human history.
I call on all people to erase the burning shame which is directed at the human race.
Force the Nazi murderers to stop the systematic massacre of a people."
Szmul Zygielbojm.
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