What happened to American Jews in the United States during World War 2?

Nothing that I know of.

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Approximately 500,000 Jews served in all branches of the U.S. armed forces and 52,000 were decorated for bravery.

There were a lot of Americans that sympathized with Hitler, and felt the Jews in America were no better than lice. Those who weren’t wealthy were treated horribly by some.

In America Jews were not treated any differently by the government. My great uncle actually fought on the European front, he was a Jewish American drafted into the American Army.

There were efforts by Jews and others to encourage America to get involved in fighting the Germans. America was reluctant at first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States#The_Holocaust

Actually, @filmfann brings up a good point, I was not thinking in those terms. There were Nazi sympathisizers in America. A famous example would be Henry Ford, yes the car guy, published a periodical for a while that was antisemitic and Nazi sympathesizing. I don’t think he wrote the articles, but he was involved with its publishing and distrobution. My memory fails me on the particulars.

I don’t think my family encountered much antisemitism in NYC during that time in history. But, then and now Jews are sometimes stereotyped as greedy, cheap, selfish, heartless, and that they own everything.

There was a series on PBS about Jews in America that was very good. I’ll see if I can find it. It covers much more than just the war years.

Here is the PBS special on Jews in America. Maybe you can skip around to the years you are interested in. It’s a three part series, I think it starts in the 1600’s.

America’s response to the Holocaust

On Chicago’s South Side, a lot of them moved to the North Side suburbs.
There were no restrictions that I was aware of.

@Sunny2 That made me laugh. Did they move because of the war? Or, just moved to the new burbs?

No. The area around the University of Chicago and South Shore was slowly becoming home for more people of color. There were “block busting parties” where gangs would leave empty bottles and trash on the postage stamp lawns. People felt threatened and moved. It just happened to begin towards the end of the war.

My relatives were in the Air Force and bombed the bejeezus out of German forces or towed gliders that released troops.
I have one’s Morse code keyer. He remembered the message he sent while over North Africa. Awesome.

By the way @AshlynM – your question was appropriate and respectful, and as a child of survivors, I am grateful that young people like yourself can be both curious yet sensitive at the same time. Sometimes it’s the little things, like capitalizing the letter J. Someone here actually had the audacity and chutzpah to use Auschwitz, the concentration camp with its gas chambers, as a *ver*b – as in to exterminate bugs. In a sentence about insects. Can you believe it? As casually as we use google as a verb now.

I don’t remember anything negative but then again, I lived in Brighton Beach Brooklyn next to Sheepshead Bay, mostly Jews and Italians in those days. We had block parties and celebrated the end of the war together. Some of my mother’s relatives in Germany were killed in the gas chambers, but in the US we were all as one as I remember from my childhood.