David S. Wyman

David S. Wyman (1929-2018) was an American historian renowned for his critical examination of the United States' response to the Holocaust. His most notable work, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 (1984), a New York Times bestseller, won the National Jewish Book Award and other honors, arguing that the U.S. could have saved hundreds of thousands of Jews but failed due to indifference and policy failures. Other key works include Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941 (1968) and The World Reacts to the Holocaust (1996), establishing him as a leading Holocaust scholar. UMass Obituary, Wyman Institute