The Balfour Declaration was a public statement
issued by the British government in 1917
during World War I announcing support for the
establishment of a "national home for the
Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman
region with a small minority Jewish population.
Purpose: Confirming support from the British
Author(s): Walter Rothschild, Arthur Balfour, o Signatories: Arthur James Balfour
Declaration Created on 2 November 1917
The Declaration, on its own, has nothing to do with the Holocaust