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  • A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz

    History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

    by Tuvia Friling ...
    Translated by Haim Watzman ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    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 ... Read more

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  • Romania and the Holocaust

    Events – Contexts – Aftermath

    From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iai killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces and local people, large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and ghettos of Transnistria, and ... Read more

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    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

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