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A
synagogue
on West Twenty-Third Street in
New York City
remained open 24 hours on
D-Day
for special services and prayer.
Jews in the U.S. during World War II
were mostly unaware of the atrocities of
The Holocaust
, beyond the basic facts that Jews were being
persecuted
by the
Nazis
.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
, publisher of
The New York Times
and a Jew himself, was anti-
Zionist
and downplayed much of the news. Furthermore, Jewish studio executives of
major film studios
did not want to be accused of advocating Jewish propaganda by making films with overtly antifascist themes.
Photo:
Farm Security Administration
; Restoration:
Lise Broer
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