ABSTRACT
Unbelievable!, Hillel Kook thought, his eyes riveted on a headline in the Washington Post for November 25, 1942: “2 Million Jews Slain, Rabbi Wise Reports.” The Associated Press dispatch went on to explain that Stephen Wise, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, had just received State Department confirmation that half of the estimated four million Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe had been murdered in an “extermination campaign.” Wise's own sources disclosed that the German Führer had ordered an end to the remainder by New Year's Day 1943, and that half of Warsaw's Jewish population of 800,000 had already died. 1
