Holocaust Reporting

* In “Holocaust Remembered: The News Went Nowhere” (Commentary, April 19), Walter Reich states that “[New York Times Publisher] Arthur Hays Sulzberger . . . was less than comfortable with his Jewish identity and . . . preferred not to focus on matters Jewish.”

While I do not argue the fact that the news coverage of the persecution of Jews in Germany was sadly insufficient, I want to say for the record that privately Sulzberger was deeply concerned about the Jewish problem. When we arrived in America in August 1940 he invited my husband--one of the last rabbis to get out of Berlin--to give a report to him and his staff about the emigration problems of Jews from Berlin at that time, and then sent us to Washington to give the report to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. I want to add that Sulzberger personally issued affidavits to Jews still in Germany, which enabled them to receive immigration visas, thus rescuing them and saving their lives. Even afterward, he and his wife remained in friendly contact with these refugee families.

RUTH NUSSBAUM

Sherman Oaks