Silence in the ShadowsThe Moment the World Doomed Six Million to Die. In July 1938, the United States, Great Britain, and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at vian les Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities. However, most of those nations rejected the pleas being made by the Jewish communities, thus condemning them to the Holocaust. There is