The Evian Conference
During the Holocaust
Who?
The Evian Conference was held by President Franklin D. Roosevelt who called for this international conference with the 32 delegates.
What?
The Evian Conference was an international conference to discuss what could be done to help German Jews.
Newspaper Article
This newspaper article informs the people about the conference President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the delegates are having to discuss them opening their borders to refugees.
Where were they supposed to go?
Germany forced the 600,000 Jewish people out of their country by treating them so bad that they had to leave. By 1938, 1 in 4 Jews found places to go, while others didn't. The ones who were not able to find a place to go, were forced to stay in Germany.
Charts
This is a chart showing the immigration of Jews from Germany and Austria is 1938, and as you can tell, most refugees moved to the United States.
Why?
The Evian Conference was held after Austria joined Germany in March to discuss generating an international organization to handle the problem with the Jew's refugee issue. In other words, they met to find places for the Jews to go. In effect, the Dominican Republic offered to take in 100,000 refugees, but in actuality only 800 refugees entered the country, for large sums of money. Most of the refugees moved to the United States.
Just a summary
Basically states that their goal failed.
Hitler's Reaction
Hitler claimed that other countries criticized Germany for their "bad treatment of Jews", but wouldn't allow refugees into their countries.
They had no where to go
The refugees were not able to go into almost any country like Austria, Hungary or Poland.