Did President Franklin D. Roosevelt do enough to help save the Jews?
Robert N. Rosen, author of Saving the Jews: Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the Holocaust
, argues that FDR was one of the few men of his time who understood and
sought to defeat the threat posed by Hitler.
Grand Valley State University’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential
Studies is helping sponsor Rosen’s visit Thursday, May 7, at 7 p.m. at
the Gerald R. Ford Museum Auditorium, 303 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids.
The event is also sponsored by Kaufman Interfaith Institute, the Ford
Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
Rosen is a shareholder in the Rosen Law Firm in Charleston, South
Carolina. He has served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of
Charleston and general counsel for the Charleston County School
District. He has served on several boards and has been listed in The
Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years.
Rosen is the author of the books: A Short History of
Charleston; Confederate Charleston: An Illustration History of the
City and the People During the Civil War; The Jewish Confederates;
and Charleston: A Crossroads of History
.
Rosen received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of
Virginia, his master’s degree in history from Harvard and his juris
doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
FDR and the Holocaust
May 1, 2009
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