The US was extremely late to offering any kind of safe haven to Jews. Even when it did, it was a single town in upstate NY. Only about a thousand jewish refuge

The US was extremely late to offering any kind of safe haven to Jews. Even when it did, it was a single town in upstate NY. Only about a thousand jewish refugees were let into the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/nyregion/oswego-jewish-refugees-world-war-two.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/nyregion/oswego-jewish-re...