Letter from Senator Robert F. Wagner and Others to President Harry S. Truman

ROBERT F. WAGNER NEW YORK United States Senate WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, D.C. JUN 21 10.55PM '46 RECEIVED June 20, 1946 Dear Mr. President: The case for the immediate admission into Palestine of 100,000 Jews who have been the victims of Nazi persecution is written in blood and suffering: 1. From 1933 on, the Jews of Europe were the first signal and final depths of Nazi persecution and barbarism. 2. In Hitler's concentration and extermination camps, 6,000,000 Jews were tortured, gassed or burned to death. The rest suffered horrors not much better than death. 3. The 1,500,000 Jews still left alive in Europe are largely destitute, unwanted or homeless with a well-grounded need and want to migrate to Palestine and to leave the scene of the horrors inflicted on them. 4. The Jews still left in Europe had hoped that when victory was achieved over the Nazis more than a year ago, they would then have a reasonable opportunity to go to Palestine soon. 5. On August 31, 1945, you wrote to Prime Minister Attlee asking that 100,000 of the displaced European Jews be allowed to migrate to Palestine. 6. The British Government turned down this request and suggested instead an investigation. The Anglo-American Com- mittee of Inquiry, made up of distinguished British as well as American representatives, was appointed to make this investigation. 7. The Anglo-American Committee started its work on January 4, 1946. It completed and published its report on April 30, 1946. It unanimously endorsed your proposal of August 31, 1945 that 100,000 European Jews be admitted to Palestine--and it recommended that this be done immediately.