How America failed European Jews during the Holocaust How America failed European Jews during the Holocaust How America failed European Jews during the Holocaust Eighty years after his execution by Nazi occupiers, Dutch forensic investigators have finally identified the mysterious remains of a man as that of a Jewish resistance hero named Bernard Luza, investigators said Wednesday. Luza, 39, was shot by firing squad in 1943 after he and hundreds of other Jews and their relatives were arrested following a raid on a factory in northern Amsterdam on November 11, 1942. Bernard Luza Dutch Defense Ministry His body was discovered...