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Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for
serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist
son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of
interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish
Agency's Rescue Committee during the Holocaust and Israel's first
minister of the interior. In light of the father's high placement
in both Polish and Israeli politics, the denunciation of the
younger Gruenbaum and his suspicious death during the 1948
Arab-Israeli war add intrigue to a controversy that really centers
on the question of what constitutes--and how do we evaluate--moral
behavior in Auschwitz.
"Arrows in the Dark "recounts and analyzes the many efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine--the Yishuv--to provide assistance to European Jews facing annihilation by the Nazis. Tuvia Friling provides a detailed account of the activities carried out at the behest of David Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv leadership, from daring attempts to extract Jews from Nazi-occupied territory, to proposals for direct negotiations with the Nazis. Through its rich array of detail and primary documentation, this book shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time, refuting the idea that Ben-Gurion and the Yishuv ignored the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust.
Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for
serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist
son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of
interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish
Agency's Rescue Committee during the Holocaust and Israel's first
minister of the interior. In light of the father's high placement
in both Polish and Israeli politics, the denunciation of the
younger Gruenbaum and his suspicious death during the 1948
Arab-Israeli war add intrigue to a controversy that really centers
on the question of what constitutes--and how do we evaluate--moral
behavior in Auschwitz.
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