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Themes • Key questions in modern world history • Could Britain have done more to help the Jews in the Second World War? • The Sources

The Sources

Source no	Document reference	Date	Caption
1	➜ CHAR 23/11	May 1939 / April 1943	A paper to the War Cabinet from Churchill April 1943 on the issue of the treatment of Jews
2	➜ CHAR 20/94A/11	July 1943	Copy of a letter from WSC to Professor Harold Laski about Jewish suffering in the war, 5 July 1943
3	➜ CHAR 20/54B/179	October 1942	Copy of a letter from Churchill to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 29 October, 1942
4	➜ CHAR 20/138A/16	July 1943	Letter from WSC to Lord Melchett regarding the massacre of Hungarian Jews July 1944
5	➜ CHAR20/93A/69-71	1943	Note prepared by the Foreign Office regarding the Government's plans to assist the Jewish people written in 1943.
6	➜ CHAR 20/153/1 Page 20	July 1944	Discussion in the Cabinet of the formation of a Jewish brigade by the Secretary of State for War on 26th July 1944 [from the Prime Minister’s Personal Minutes]