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The committee employed tactics that were unorthodox for that era, including mass rallies, lobbying Congress, and full-page newspaper ads with headlines such as "Jews Fight for the Right to Fight." Many of the ads were authored by the Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht. The ads featured long lists of political figures, labor leaders, intellectuals and entertainers endorsing the Jewish army cause. Some of the ads were illustrated by the famous artist Arthur Szyk, a Bergson supporter.
- ↑ "Bergson Group" (PDF). Yad Vashem.
In late 1941 the group formed the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews." However, when information about the mass murder of Jews in Europe went public in November 1942, the group decided to scrap its campaign for a Jewish army and focus all its energies on rescue efforts. The Bergson Group chose to use American public opinion to pressure the United States government into helping European Jewry.
- ↑ "Bergson's race against the Shoah in America". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ↑ "Still Up And At It: One Of The Original 'Monuments Men'". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., pointed out that the Roosevelt administration's creation of the Monuments Men caught many by surprise. He noted that throughout the spring of 1943, "Jewish groups were urging creation of a government commission to rescue Jews, and the Roosevelt administration kept saying it couldn't divert any resources to help refugees. Then suddenly in June, the president turned around and created a special commission to rescue historic monuments and paintings. Jewish groups weren't against saving the paintings — they were just puzzled by the administration's priorities."