Auschwitz und die Allierten

“In this book I have told the story of how and when the Allies learned of the Nazi extermination of the Jews, and of how they responded. To this end, I have given particular prominence to those atrocity reports which were received in the west during the war itself, and I have traced the Allied reaction to them. This book is not, therefore, a history of the suffering of European Jewry, but an account of the facts of the exterminations as they filtered out of Nazi-dominated Europe, and of the Allied reaction to these facts, beginning when a series of explicit but incomplete reports reached London and Washington during the summer and autumn of 1942

“In order to show the gap between what was known at any given time, and what was really taking place, I have also set out the barest facts of the principal deportations, murders and gassings as they happened, making it clear whenever these facts were unknown to the Allies at the time.”
On “Palestine Certificates” documentation that allowed Jews to leave Europe and travel to British Mandate Palestine, 1944: “The name 'Birkenau' again appeared in a Jewish Agency message on May 3, although once again, as in Lichtheim's letter of May 1, it was not linked or associated in any way with the name 'Auschwitz', of which it was so integral a part. The second mention of Birkenau was in a telegram from Yitzhak Gruenbaum's representative in Istanbul, Eliezer Leder, who reported to Jerusalem that the British Consulate in Istanbul had confirmed the Palestine certificates recently issued for Hungary and Romania, and that he, Leder, now wished to know whether it was 'advisable sending some Birkenau.' This telegram is a clear pointer of just how little was known of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.”
(https://www.martingilbert.com/book/auschwitz-and-the-allies-how-the-allies-responded-to-the-news-of-hitlers-final-solution/, Zugriff: 8.1.2025)