1. War Refugee Board to American Embassy, London, 9 February 1944, copy in Edmund R. Stettinius Papers, War Refugee Board Folder, University of Virginia. Pardy reprinted in David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), 291.
2. Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981), esp. 339–340.
3. Ibid., 340.
4. David Engel, Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government in Exile and the Jews, 1943–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 287nl21: “The Polish government had long been in possession of information pointing to Auschwitz as a primary center for killing Jews, but it had not given such reports wide publicity.” Engel’s first volume, In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government in Exile and the Jews, 1939–1942 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 202, was even stronger: “The news [of Jews being gassed in large numbers at Auschwitz-Birkenau] may thus not have been altogether suppressed, but it was certainly so deeply buried and downplayed that only the most careful and thorough of readers would have noticed it at all, and hardly anyone would have attached to it any particular importance.”
5. Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), 201–202.