Bermuda Conference

<h2 id="reaction">Reaction</h2>
<p>An article in <i><a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times/T9marWVX">The New York Times</a></i> dated April 30, 1943, "Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions",<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> stated that the delegates had rejected recommendations that were not capable of being accomplished under war conditions and that would most likely delay the war effort.
</p><p>A week later, the <a href="/facts/Zionist/kL92sl76">Zionist</a> Committee for a Jewish Army ran an advertisement in <i>The New York Times</i> condemning the efforts at Bermuda as a mockery of past promises to the Jewish people and of Jewish suffering under German Nazi occupation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> US Senator <a href="/facts/Harry_S._Truman/2E2LmMoB">Harry S. Truman</a> withdrew his membership from the committee over what was perceived as an insult to members of the <a href="/facts/US_Senate/VyzXHE01">US Senate</a>, which had been involved in the conference.
</p><p><a href="/facts/Szmul_Zygielbojm/9nH3YKgc">Szmul Zygielbojm</a>, a member of the Jewish advisory body to the <a href="/facts/Polish_government-in-exile/zmK5lw9a">Polish government-in-exile</a>, committed suicide in protest at the outcome of the conference.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/%C3%89vian_Conference/my5atmse">Évian Conference</a> in 1938</li>
<li><a href="/facts/International_response_to_the_Holocaust/ozaTrQoN">International response to the Holocaust</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Jewish_refugees_from_German-occupied_Europe_in_the_United_Kingdom/9yV8Jmqj">Jewish refugees from German-occupied Europe in the United Kingdom</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Sebastian Musch and Annika Heyen: The Bermuda Conference in April 1943: Allied Politics, Jewish Organizations, and the Emergence of the International Migration Regime. In: Holocaust Studies. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2023.2228181">[1]</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://yad-vashem.org.il/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206001.pdf">Bermuda Conference</a> from Yad Vashem's Shoa Research Centre</li>
<li><a href="http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2003/04/the-allies-refugee-conference-a-cruel-mockery/">The Allies' Refugee Conference--A "Cruel Mockery" by Dr. Rafael Medoff</a></li>
<li><a href="http://enc.wymaninstitute.org/?p=69">Bermuda Conference (Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust)</a> on The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>David Blair, "The Bermuda Conference that Failed to Save the Jews", The Daily Telegraph (London), January 31, 2015 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions", New York Times, April 30, 1943, p. 9. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"To 5,000,000 Jews in the Nazi Death-Trap Bermuda was a Cruel Mockery", The New York Times, May 4, 1943, p. 17. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>The Last Letter From Szmul Zygielbojm, The Bund Representative With The Polish National Council In Exile Archived 2012-12-19 at archive.today, May 11, 1943. <a href="http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc154.html" target="_blank">http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc154.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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