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ГУЛаг ПалестиныEven at the time, some observers were repelled by the often festive atmosphere of Jewish social life in a period of wartime prosperity. (Howard M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in America, 1992, p. 550) Over the centuries the dispersion of the Jews had a functional utility: whenever some part of the Jewish community was under attack, it depended on help from the other Jews. In the period of the Nazi regime, this help did not come. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 1985, p. 1052) This question has haunted me ever since the war: Why did the Jews of the free world act as they did? Hadn't our people survived persecution and exile throughout the centuries because of its spirit of solidarity? ... When one community suffered, the others supported it, throughout the Diaspora. Why was it different this time? (Elie Wiesel, Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea, 1995, p. 63) A less indulgent view, however, is that Jews not under Nazi occupation - particularly American and British Jews - knowingly, willfully, calculatedly sacrificed their trapped European coreligionists: In his book, "In Days of Holocaust and Destruction," Yitzchak Greenbaum writes, "when they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again, 'NO!' ... one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance." In January, 1943, the leadership of the absorption and enlisting fund decided to bar all appeals on behalf of rescuing Jews ...» |
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