America's failure to help rescue the victims of Nazi genocide has by now been well documented. But one man, Peter Bergson, led a tireless battle against the American tide of indifference, making it impossible for US leaders to plead ignorance of the German atrocities. Now, David Wyman and Rafael Medoff tell the story of the man who led America's most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust; he personally hounded Congressmen to support a rescue and drew a record crowd of 40,000 to a rally and memorial pageant at Madison Square Garden which aroused public awareness of the indifference of their leaders.