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When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website. With your support, we will continue our mission to shine a light on the story of the Holocaust and Eva Kor to illuminate the world with hope, healing, respect, and responsibility. You will help transform prejudice into understanding and spread the message of healing to every part of our troubled world through your contribution to CANDLES. be informed citizens who help nurture our democratic institutionsīy creating programs that promote healingfrom trauma, draw on lessons of the Holocaust and Eva's tragic past to offer hopeto victims of discrimination, abuse, and violence, and empower manyto reclaim their lives and find freedom and happiness, CANDLES has a unique approach to teaching people to heal themselves, and in turn, setting them on a path to encourage healing within their own communities. bear witness to the consequences of remaining silent to discrimination

build communities based on mutual respect and human dignity We believe that CANDLES has a special-even unique-role to play in mending the challenges facing our world.īut we need your help to make this happen.Īs a Holocaust museum, CANDLES has a responsibility to share the lessons from that horrific event so we can help people: In the spring of 1945, Allied forces, including millions of American soldiers defeated Nazi Germany and its Axis collaborators, ending the Holocaust.Join our efforts to expand the CANDLES mission and the message of Eva Kor into our communities. During the final year of the war, US rescue efforts saved tens of thousands of lives. In January 1944, the US government created the War Refugee Board, charged with trying to rescue and provide relief for Jews and other minorities who were targeted by the Nazis. The United States joined the Allies’ fight against the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) in World War II to defend democracy, not to rescue Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. The United States quickly declared war on Japan, and Germany soon responded by declaring war on the United States. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ended this debate. Over the next two years, amid ongoing debates between those who wanted the United States to stay out of war and focus on the defense of the Western Hemisphere (isolationists) and those who favored proactively assisting Great Britain, even if it meant entering the war (interventionists), the United States slowly began to support the Allied powers. When World War II began in September 1939, most Americans hoped the United States would remain neutral.

Although the United States issued far fewer immigration visas than it could have during this period, it did admit more refugees fleeing Nazism than any other nation in the world. Instead, the US State Department implemented new restrictive measures during this period that made it more difficult for immigrants’ to enter the United States. Roosevelt’s administration nor the US Congress adjusted America’s complicated and bureaucratic immigration process, which included quotas-numerical limits on the number of immigrants-to aid the hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to flee Europe. The economic devastation of the Great Depression in the United States, combined with a commitment to neutrality and deeply held prejudices against immigrants, limited Americans’ willingness to welcome refugees.