Editing Bermuda Conference (section)

==Reaction==
An article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' dated April 30, 1943, "Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions",<ref>"Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions", ''New York Times'', April 30, 1943, p. 9.</ref> stated that the delegates had rejected recommendations that were not capable of being accomplished under war conditions and that would most likely delay the war effort.

A week later, the [[Zionist]] [[Committee for a Jewish Army]] ran an advertisement in ''The New York Times'' condemning the efforts at Bermuda as a mockery of past promises to the Jewish people and of Jewish suffering under German Nazi occupation.<ref>"To 5,000,000 Jews in the Nazi Death-Trap Bermuda was a Cruel Mockery", ''The New York Times'', May 4, 1943, p. 17.</ref> US Senator [[Harry S. Truman]] withdrew his membership from the committee over what was perceived as an insult to members of the [[US Senate]], which had been involved in the conference.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

[[Szmul Zygielbojm]], a member of the Jewish advisory body to the [[Polish government-in-exile]], committed suicide in protest at the outcome of the conference.<ref name="Letter">[http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc154.html The Last Letter From Szmul Zygielbojm, The Bund Representative With The Polish National Council In Exile] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121219122815/http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc154.html |date=2012-12-19 }}, May 11, 1943.</ref>