During World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi
rule in Eastern Europe. In occupied Poland, the Baltic countries,
Byelorussia, and Ukraine, they were stripped of property and
"resettled" in ghettos. The German authorities established in each
ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living
standards. The Judenrat was required to carry out Nazi directives
against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to
cooperate in the Final Solution.
Did the Jewish leaders of the ghettos, who were also victims,
assist their murderers? If cooperation with the Nazi oppressors was
morally defensible during the first stage in organizing the
ghettos, what about later, when deportations to death camps began?
Trunk analyzes situations where the Councils and ghetto police were
forced to send their own communities to death. Some Council members
chose suicide rather than supply lists to the Nazis; others used
delaying tactics. Some handed over the lists. Some joined their
families in the gas chamber. In assessing guilt and innocence,
Trunk never allows the reader to forget that the impossible choices
facing the Jewish leaders were created by the Nazis.
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