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== Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations Against Extermination of the Jews ==
{{Wikisourcepar|Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations Against Extermination of the Jews}}
Den felles teksten offentliggjort 17. desember 1942 av den britiske og amerikanske regjeringen var første formelle erklæring til det internasjonale samfunnet om det pågående massemordet.<ref>{{Kilde www|url=https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/declaration-of-december-17-1942|tittel=Declaration of December 17, 1942|besøksdato=2024-02-18|språk=en|verk=perspectives.ushmm.org}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde www|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/holocaust-allied-forces-knew-before-concentration-camp-discovery-us-uk-soviets-secret-documents-a7688036.html|tittel=Secret documents reveal allied forces knew about Holocaust long before they discovered Nazi camps|besøksdato=2024-02-18|dato=2017-04-18|språk=en|verk=The Independent}}</ref> Utenriksminister Anthony Eden fremførte erklæringen i en tale i Underhuset<ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=1942: Britain condemns massacre of Jews|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/17/newsid_3547000/3547151.stm|dato=1942-12-17|besøksdato=2024-02-18|språk=en-GB}}</ref> og erklæringen ble trykt på forsiden av ''New York Times'' 18. desember.<ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=11 ALLIES CONDEMN NAZI WAR ON JEWS; United Nations Issue Joint Declaration of Protest on 'Cold-Blooded Extermination' 11 ALLIES CONDEMN NAZI WAR ON JEWS|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/12/18/archives/11-allies-condemn-nazi-war-on-jews-united-nations-issue-joint.html|avis=The New York Times|dato=1942-12-18|besøksdato=2024-02-18|issn=0362-4331|språk=en-US|fornavn=Special to THE NEW YORK|etternavn=TIMES}}</ref> Bakgrunnen var en skriftlig henvendelse (note) til de allierte 10. desember fra Polens utenriksminister i eksil, Edward Raczynski, noten hadde tittelen ''The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland.'' Erklæringen var signert av den belgiske, tsjekkoslovakiske, greske, jugoslaviske, luxembourgske, nederlandske, norske, polske, sovjetiske, britiske og amerikanske regjeringer samt den franske nasjonalkomite (Charles de Gaulle).

{{sitat|From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.<ref>{{Wikisourcepar|Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations Against Extermination of the Jews}}</ref>}}