Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)



Jewish Complicity in the Holocaust. Judenrat. Jewish Ghetto Police. Jewish Gestapo Agents

Expert Jewish Collaborators Energetic: Poles Blamed Hoax. Gontarczyk

How to Blame Poles for Hundreds of Victims of the Jewish Police, by Piotr Gontarczyk. 2026. GONIEC (Feb. 15, 2026)

Jewish Collaborators Energetic: Transferring Blame From Jews to Poles This English-language article (lacking pagination) is a translation of the Polish-language article in SIECI nr 7/2026 (689)-08.02.2026. It expands on some…

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Jewish Collaboration Worse Than Polish Collaboration

The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, two vols., by Randolph L. Braham. 1981. Columbia University Press, New York.

Jewish Collaboration Favors: The Perks of Jewish Collaboration Author Braham trots out the usual exculpatory arguments for Jewish collaboration, but admits, "Nevertheless, it is quite possible that the Hungarian Jewish…

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Bad Pole Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: Perks of Jewish Collaboration. Browning

Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony, by Christopher R. Browning. 2003

Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. It Needs to Be Subject to the Same Vetting Process, For Accuracy, as Is All Other's Testimony This work contains very timely information. For example: UNCRITICALLY-BELIEVED HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES--NOT THE HOLOCAUST DENIERS--ARE…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents: Their Baseness. “Few Poles Rescuers” Repudiated. Perks of Jewish Collaboration in the Zydokomuna. Frister

The Cap: The Price Of A Life, by Roman Frister, Hillel Halkin (Translator). 2000

Candor About Jewish Denunciations, Looting, and Almost-Insuperable Difficulties in Polish Rescue of Jews This Holocaust-survivor account is packed with seldom-told and often-unwelcome information. Even as late as 1941, Frister's mother didn't believe that the invading Germans…

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Jewish Collaboration Apologetic Sizable and Poor. Double Collaboration

Jarkowska-Natkaniec. 2019. Cooperating with the Nazis. Jews in the Grey Zone of Collaboration. JUDAICA ET HOLOCAUSTICA 19(2)4-25

A Poorly-Reasoned Jewish Collaboration Apologetic This article contains some distinctive information. That is my focus. JEWISH COLLABORATION APOLOGETIC: A WEB OF SPURIOUS ARGUMENTS Author Jarkowska-Natkaniec adheres to the standard Judeocentric narratives. For instance,…

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Jews and Poles Equal Victims: Poles Feared German Death Just As Much as Jews Did. Jewish Gestapo Agents. Double Collaboration. Taubenschlag

To be a Jew in Occupied Poland: Cracow-Auschwitz-Buchenwald, by Stanisław Taubenschlag. 1998

Holocaust and Polokaust Overlapped. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration: Jewish Gestapo Agents in Action. Jewish (and Not Only Polish) Double Collaboration This WWII Jewish memoir is unusual in a number of respects. It is refreshingly free of Polonophobic innuendo. The author…

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At Majdanek. Zamosc Operation Prisoners. Jewish Gold at Death Camps. Perks of Jewish Collaboration. Jewish Kapos Rule. Armia Krajowa: Why Few Jews. Home Army Action. Kwiatkowski

485 Days at Majdanek, by Jerzy Kwiatkowski, 2018, 2021. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

Poles and Jews Suffer Together at Majdanek. Other Jews Usurp High Positions Jerzy Kwiatkowski (1894-1980) was an inmate of Maidanek, and wrote this detailed memoir soon after the war. It has finally been…

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Jews-Feared-Holocaust Myth: Wanton and False

A Tower From the Enemy, by Albert Nirenstein. 1959. Orion Press, New York

Jews-Feared-Holocaust Myth, So Cannot Be Excuse for Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Jews often reflexively bring up "a mortal fear of the Nazis" and "awareness of impending extermination" as excuses for collaboration with the Nazis. These exculpations will not do.…

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Unusual Ways Jewish-Court Dual Morality

Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe, edited by Eric Le Bourhis et al. 2022. University of Rochester Press, Rochester, Suffolk

Jewish-Court Dual Morality. Postwar Jewish Collaborators Get Their Own Very-Lenient Court System Some of the postwar Jews in Poland, accused of Nazi collaboration, had…

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Jewish Complicity in the Holocaust: Trials of Jewish Kapos. Kapos Had Choice. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Once Punished By Israel. Porat

Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, by Dan Porat. 2019. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts

Jewish Collaboration Not Only Recognized, But Actively Punished, in Early Israel. The Exculpatory "All Jews Were Victims" Came Later Immediately after WWII, the question of Jewish collaboration with the Nazis was…

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JUDENRAT Collaboration Once Single and Now Double Standards. Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die. Jockusch

Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel After the Holocaust, by Laura Jockusch (Editor), Gabriel Finder, et al. 2015

Jewish Collaborator Trials: Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis: How Jews Once Tried to Deal With It. Jewish anti-Christian Teachings A Jewish honor court was one that…

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Judenrats: “Avert a Worse Situation” Exculpation Fails. Baseness of Jewish-Nazi Collaborators: Jewish Ghetto Police. Trunk

Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation, by Isaiah Trunk, Steven T. Katz (Introduction). 1972

The JUDENRAT and Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Let's Have No Double Standards on Collaboration by Jews and by Poles This encyclopedic work (review based on 1972 edition) includes arcane details about the origins…

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Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die. Jewish Collaborator Exculpation Rejected. Jewish Ghetto Police Voluntary. Ronen

Collaborator or Would-Be Rescuer? The Barenblat Trial and the Image of a Judenrat Member in 1960s Israel, by Avihu Ronen, Hadas Agmon, and Asaf Danziger. 2011

Jewish Collaborator Dispatches 7,000 Jews to Their Deaths at Auschwitz This article is published in YAD VASHEM STUDIES 39(1)117-167. The defendant was recognized on…

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Judenrat Freedoms: Judenrat Autonomy. Can Disobey Germans! Lodz Ghetto. Auctions of Jewish Property: IRONY. Very Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Rosenfeld. Loewy

In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks From Lodz, edited by Hanno Loewy. 2002. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL

Judenrat Freedoms: Jewish Autonomy and Collaboration With the Nazis This set of diaries, written by diarist Oskar Rosenfeld, presents everyday life in the Lodz ghetto. I focus on items of lasting…

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Judenrat Jewish Agency Remarkably Proven Here

Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation, by Laurien Vastenhout. 2022. Cambridge University Press, U. K., New York

Judenrat Jewish Agency: Jews Usually Had Choices in the Personnel Involved Many Holocaust-related works exculpate the Judenrats by asserting that the Germans forced them on the…

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JUDENRAT Helps Nazis Uncover Hidden Jews. Khmelnytsky Pogroms Greatly Exaggerated: Example. Kamenetzky

Belica Memorial Book, by Issachar Kamenetzky (ed.) 1968, 2010. Emigres of Belica in Israel & America, Tel Aviv, New Jersey

Judenrat Helps Nazis Find Hidden Jews Through False Assurances Belica (Belitsa) is a town in present-day Belarus, then a part of Poland. This yizkor (yizker) book is comparable to many…

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Ewa Kurek Correct: Nazi Germany Granted Considerable Judenrat Autonomy: DEFINITIVE WORK. Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die. Jewish Ghetto Police Malevolent. Friedman

Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust, by Philip Friedman. 1980. Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia

Judenrat Autonomy: A Fulfillment of Jewish Separatist Dreams. Ewa Kurek Right This is a collection of scholarly articles written between 1945 and 1960 by Philip Friedman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. I…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents. Polish Death Camp Lie: Why German Camps in Poland (Transportation Logistics). Wroblewski Halvorsen

Byc Zydem: Rozmowa z Dagiem Halvorsenem, by Andrzej Wroblewski and Dag Halvorsen. 1992

Addresses Many Common Misconceptions About Polish-Jewish Relations. Jewish Gestapo Agents TO BE A JEW: DISCUSSIONS WITH DAG HALVORSEN ABOUT JEWS AND THE ANTISEMITISM OF THE POLES. In this Polish-language book, Halvorsen asks many questions which reflect…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Jewish Ghetto Police Semi-Voluntary. Judenrat Corruption. Szmalcowniki, Polish AND Jewish, of Upright Backgrounds. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Redner

A Jewish Policeman in Lwow: An Early Account, 1941-1943, by Ben Z. Redner. 2015. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

LATE JEWISH AWARENESS OF THE HOLOCAUST. Total Number of Fugitive Jews Unknowable The setting of this work is the Lwow ghetto under Nazi German occupation. The author wrote about his experiences soon…

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Instructive Schindler Self-Service. Kovno Judenrat Official Jewish Creation

The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, edited by Samuel Schalkowsky. 2014. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis

Schindler Self-Service, and Other Details of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police This preserved diary gives many details of everyday life in the Kovno ghetto in German-occupied Lithuania. I focus on…

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Insidious Jews Betray Jews and Exploit Them

KHURBN-FORSHUNG: Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland, edited by Laura Jockusch. 2021. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Netherlands

Jews Betray Jews: Some Examples. Explaining the "Secretiveness" of Polish Rescuers of Jews This volume contains many postwar documents of Polish Jews that had survived the German-made Holocaust. I focus on a…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: Did Have Some Freedom to Act. Perks of Jewish Collaboration. Paid Polish Jew-Rescuers: Why? Are Appreciated! Niewyk

Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival, by Donald L. Niewyk (Editor). 1998

Jewish-Nazi Collaboration: Not All Choiceless Choices. Paid Greedy Rescuer Myth. Bentschen (Zbaszyn) 1938 This anthology features Holocaust survivors from Poland and a few other countries, including Germany. The experiences include those of Jews who fled…

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Highly-Organized Attempt to Suppress Hannah Arendt on Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Goldhagen Effect. Holocaust Uniqueness an Evasion of German Guilt. Kautz

The German Historians: Hitler's Willing Executioners and Daniel Goldhagen, by Fred Kautz. 2003. Black Rose Books, Montreal, New York, London

Holocaust Foibles. German Guilt: Criticizing the Critics of Daniel Goldhagen There is a lot more to the study of the German-made Holocaust that meets the eye, and I focus on…

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Jewish Collaboration the Worst: Jewish Profiteering and Selfish Opportunism. Beyond Choiceless Choices: Diligence in Serving Germans. At First Poles Treated Worse Than Jews. Christians Hide Among Jews. Kruk

The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944, by Herman Kruk, Benjamin Harshav (Editor), Barbara Harshav (Translator). 2002

Jewish Nazi Collaboration Went Far Beyond "Choiceless Choices" or Desperately Trying to Save One's Life. Incisive Details This extensive diary covers most of…

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German Guilt Dilution Identified and Rejected. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration and Zydokomuna Strongly Condemned. Wdowinski

And We Are Not Saved, by David Wdowinski. 1963

Zydokomuna Not Marginal. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Faced. German Guilt Diffusion Confronted David Wdowinski and Chaim Lazar cite several sources that describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This book emphasizes the ZZW (rather than the ZOB) and, to a lesser but still…

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German Guilt: No Retreat. De-Germanized Nazis Rejected. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Inexcusable. Zimmels

The Echo of the Nazi Holocaust in Rabbinic Literature, by H. J. Zimmels. 1977

No De-Germanized Nazis. Unequivocal German Guilt. Cruelties of Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Polish Scholar Ewa Kurek Inadvertently Validated. Jewish Law Permits Re-Purposed Christian Tombstones This book presents a great deal of arcane information related to the…

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JUDENRAT a Decisive Help to Germans in Holocaust. DEFINITIVE WORK. Szmalcowniki. Betrayals of Jews: Fugitive Jews Betrayed Other Fugitive Jews–as Much as Poles Did! Goodbye Jews! A Lie. Draft Dodging. Zydokomuna: Hashomer Hatzair, Poalei Zion Virtually Communist. Kielce Pogrom. Zuckerman

A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman. 1993. University of California Press, Berkeley

Eyewitness Author Refutes the Notion That Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Had an Insignificant Outcome on the German-made Holocaust. The Polish Blue Police and the Jewish Ghetto Police: No Double Standard on…

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1933 Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott Backfired. Abba Kovner Iconoclasm. JUDENRAT Collaboration: Zeal, Cruelty, and Diligence Condemned. Rabbi Moshe Schonfeld

The Holocaust Victims Accuse, by Moshe Schonfeld. 1977

1933 Boycott. Questionable Zionist Actions. JUDENRAT Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Unequivocally Condemned Rabbi Moshe Schonfeld has written a hard-hitting book, one that inadvertently undermines many of the canons of modern Holocaust education. While he does repeat stereotyped criticisms of Christians, the Vatican, etc.,…

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JUDENRAT Big Help to Germans: Arendt Clarified and Substantiated. Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die: DEFINITIVE WORK. MacDonald

Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts, by Dwight MacDonald. 1974

Hannah Arendt Clarified on Jewish Nazi Collaboration. Polish Historian Ewa Kurek is Right, Notably on Some Jews Turned Over, By Jewish Leaders, for Death This is an anthology of essays by Dwight Macdonald, and I focus exclusively on his analysis of…

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BIG BULLETIN: JEWS THAT WERE WILLING STOOGES OF THE NAZIS

  • Jews: Willing Stooges. Contrary to the "Jews feared death" excuse, Jews did not see Nazi Germany as particularly dangerous until 1942 (Szende 1945). They collaborated with the Nazis long before then.
  • Jewish collaboration cannot be excused: German-occupied Poles felt comparable pressures to collaborate, yet do not get excused. Surely…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Cruelties of Jewish Kapos. Inconsistent Nazi Killings of Jewish Forced Laborers. Gelissen

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam. 1996

Jewish Nazi Collaborators: Not Just Choiceless Choices: Jewish Kapos Who Went Beyond the German Call of Duty Rena was a Polish Jew who hailed from Tylicz, which is located southeast of Krakow. Perhaps without…

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JUDENRAT Collaboration: Arendt Answers Her Critics. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven By Fear of Death. Jews Were Not Totally Powerless. Baehr

The Portable Hannah Arendt, by Hannah Arendt, Peter Baehr (Editor). 2003

Hannah Arendt--"Only a Philosopher" Owing to Her Unwelcome Findings on Jewish-Nazi Collaboration, Shows a Clearly Sophisticated Understanding of It, Putting Her Critics in Their Place Evidently, for some, whenever you dislike the message, go after the messenger. In response,…

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SCHINDLER’S LIST Incorrect: Schindler Feared Jews Killed, Factory Closure, Then Russian Front. Fugitive Jews Betrayed Polish Rescuers. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Pankiewicz

The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy, by Tadeusz Pankiewicz. 1947, 2016

Jewish Gestapo Agents. BAUDIENST Was Not a Polish Collaborationist Unit. Iconoclasm: Oskar Schindler Not a Hero My review is based on the 1985 English-language translation of the 1947 edition. This memoir of ghettoized Polish Jews (review based on the 1987 edition)…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Jews Did Not Fear 1939 Nazis. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Szmalcowniki. Jewish Collaborators Base People. Polish Warnings to Local Jews. Schoenfeld

Holocaust Memoirs: Jews in the Lwow Ghetto, the Janowski Concentration Camp, and As Deportees in Siberia, by Joachim Schoenfeld. 1985

1939 Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails. Jewish Nazi Collaboration Not Just Choiceless Choices. Jewish Denouncers as Well as Polish Denouncers. No Finger-Pointing This work covers a lot of experiences, and I…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Jewish Ghetto Police Cruel and Unscrupulous. Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational. Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Jews Did Not Fear 1939 Nazis. Ungar

Destined to Live, by William Chanoff, David Ungar, David Chanoff. 2000

Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis: Choiceless Choice and Save-One's-Life Exculpations Fail. Jewish Ghetto Police Were "Cruel and Unscrupulous" This book has a variety of interesting information. For example: AT LEAST TWO SIDES TO POLISH ANTI-SEMITISM Author William Ungar's childhood…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Going Far Beyond German Orders. Communist Crimes Trivialized: An Example. Goda

Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches, by Norman J W Goda (Editor), Omer Bartov. 2014

Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis: Jewish Ghetto Police at Kielce: Beyond Choiceless Choices. Holocaust Supremacism, Minimized Communist Crimes, and a Cavalier Dismissal of Scholars Who Disagree Two items in this anthology stand out,…

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Jewish Collaboration: Jewish Ghetto Police Exculpations Wanting. No Fears of Imminent Death. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Jewish Gestapo Agents. Eisner

The Survivor Of The Holocaust, by Jack Eisner. 1996

Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Fear-of-Death Exculpation Fails. Jews in ARMIA KRAJOWA (A. K.) (Review based on 1980 edition). Author Eisner describes life in the German-made Warsaw Ghetto in some detail. Interestingly Jews, and not only Poles, had their superstitions. "She [mother] spat three…

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Jewish-Nazi Collaboration: A Moral Reckoning. Not All Choiceless Choices. Coming to Terms With the Past. Journalism and Jews. Grave Robbery: Jews Robbed Jews. Lodz Ghetto. Warsaw Ghetto. Opoczynski

In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz, by Peretz Opoczynski, Josef Zelkowicz, David Suchoff (Translation), Samuel D. Kassow (Editor). 2015

Not Only Poles: Jews Robbed Jewish Dead. Candor on and "Coming to Terms With the Past" on JEWISH-NAZI COLLABORATION This work features the…

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Jewish Passivity. Jews Unguarded! Jewish Ghetto Police Kill and Steal. Murdering the NSZ. Gray

For Those I Loved, by Martin Gray. 2006

Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis. Jewish Passivity (Germans Didn't Even Have to Guard Jews). Holocaust Long Disbelieved by Jews. Author Joins the Communist GL-AL Some seldom-discussed information is included. For example: JEWISH NAZI COLLABORATION While in the Warsaw Ghetto, the…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents Do Great Damage. Aryanized and Spared Jews: Example. Some Jewish Collaboration Was Voluntary. Selfish Opportunism. Wyden

Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany, by Peter Wyden. 1993

Jewish Agents: Stella Kubler Betrayed as Many as 2,300 Berlin Fugitive Jews! This work introduces the reader to Jewish life in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany. Out of about 500,000 Jews in Germany, 173,000…

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One Valuable Zbaszyn 1938 Expellee Jews Victim Testimony. Kasztner!

The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann, by Moshe Pearlman. 1963. Simon and Schuster, New York

Eichmann and Ex Post Facto Laws, the Kasztner Treason, and the 1938 Expellee Jews It has now been more than 60 years since the trial of Eichmann. Many other Nazis accused of killing…

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Judenrat Collaboration: Kasztner’s Service to the Nazis Cost Many Jewish Lives. Weitz

The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial, by Yechiam Weitz. 1994

Kasztner Served the Nazis. His Collaboration and Its Unvarnished Implications This review is from an article in HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES Volume 8, No, 3, pp 349-371. This work is about the Kasztner-Gruenewald trial (1954-1958), focusing on the alleged…

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JUDENRAT Deceives Jews: Denies Nazi Extermination. JUDENRAT Collaboration With SS Patronage: Kasztner. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Bogdanor

Kasztner's Crime, by Paul Bogdanor. 2016

Jewish Complicity in the Holocaust: The JUDENRAT, and Nazi-Collaborator and Deceiver Kasztner--Exonerated by Platitudes. Hungarian Jews Long in Denial About the Unfolding Holocaust Equal justice for all peoples is my main concern, with no double standards for Jewish and non-Jewish collaborators with the…

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Introducing the Forgotten Zionist-Nazi Accord

Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy, by Sasson Sofer. 1998. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York

Zionist-Nazi Accord: Jews in Palestine Attempted to Collaborate With the Nazis. Also, Why Judeo-Bolshevism Was Not More Extensive This "meaty" book focuses on Jewish politics in the Yishuv (pre-Israel Palestine). In my review,…

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Jews Fear Jewish Gestapo Agents. SZMALCOWNIKI Extortionists Usually Not Jew-Killers. Ziemian

The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square, by Joseph Ziemian. 2005

Polish Blackmailers (SZMALCOWNIKI) Were Usually Petty Extortionists, Not Jew-Killers. Fugitive Jews Fear Jewish Gestapo Agents The story of the Jewish boys who sold cigarettes in the Polish side of Warsaw is a moving one. The Jewish boys met…

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Judeopolonia Model: A Nazi-Imposed Judeopolonia on German-Occupied Poland. Final Solution Evolving Meanings. PROTOCOLS Irony. Kasztner Details. Eichmann

The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final Solution, by Adolf Eichmann. 2015. Black House Publishing, London

Nazi Judeopolonia: Details on the Proposed Jewish-Ruled Poland Under the Nazi German Overlords This book is based on taped interviews with top Nazi Adolf Eichmann, in 1951 through 1959. (p. 6). He was…

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Jewish Collaboration: Jewish Ghetto Police Exculpations Wanting. Poles and Not Only Jews Faced Choiceless Choices. Szmalcowniki, Polish AND Jewish, of Upright Backgrounds. Drix

Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust, by Samuel Drix. 2003

Jewish Ghetto Police Collaboration: Exculpations Rejected. Profit of Jewish Collaborators. Insights on Polish Rescuers Killing Their Jews The author was a Jewish doctor, and Holocaust survivor, from Lwow (Lviv). This book touches on the author's experiences in pre-WWII Poland,…

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JUDENRAT. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven By Fear of Death. Self-Benefit And Corruption. Smolar

The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans Against the Nazis, by Hersh Smolar. 1989. Holocaust Library, USHMM

Everyday Judenrat Actions at the Expense of Ordinary Jews: Not An Attempt to Save One's Life This book emphasizes the usual complaints that the Soviet Union was not paying sufficient attention to the presumed Read more

Jewish-Nazi Collaboration DEFINITIVE WORK. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven By Fear of Death. Finkel

Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, by Evgeny Finkel. 2017

Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Candidly Analyzed (Not Merely Choiceless Choices). Earlier Jewish-Soviet Collaboration at Bialystok Evgeny Finkel's analysis of Jewish-Nazi collaboration is quite good, and I discuss it first. JEWISH COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION WITH THE GERMANS (NAZIS): DEFINING THE…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices: A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven By Fear of Death. Kulkielko

Escape From The Pit, by Renya Kulkielko. 2015

1939 German Terror Bombing. Jewish Nazi Collaboration Went Far Beyond CHOICELESS CHOICES. Jewish Banditry Renya Kulkielko was a Polish Jew who masqueraded as a gentile on Aryan papers, frequented the Kielce area (including Bendzin), and traveled at times to…

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Jewish Collaboration: Jewish Profiteering and Selfish Opportunism. German Cynicism: Nominally Treating Poles Better Than Jews. Earlier Jewish Economic Hegemony. Robertson

Don't Go to Uncle's Wedding: Personal Stories from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Jenny Robertson. 2000

Touches on Pre-WWII Polish-Jewish Economic Rivalry. Candor on Jewish Nazi Collaboration (as Profiteering). "God's Will" For Not Helping Jews This work includes extracts from the works of Ringelblum, Lewin, Szpilman, and others. Quotations from…

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SCHINDLER’S LIST Wrong: Schindler Feared Jews Killed, Factory Closure, Then Russian Front. Jewish Collaboration No Exculpation. Kapos Had Choice. Inconsistent Nazi Killings of Jewish Forced Laborers. Guterman

A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish Slave Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camps System 1940-1945, by Belah Guṭerman. 2008

Jewish Collaboration No Exculpation: Features Jewish KAPOS, With No Easy Exculpation For Their Nazi-Collaborating Behavior. Nazi Officials Kept Even Unneeded Jews Alive to Evade Service on the Russian Front…

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ARMIA KRAJOWA: Why Few Jews: the Double Standards. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Christians Hide Among Jews, But Jews Also Refuse to Hide Christians. Jewish Complicity in Koniuchy Massacre. Lazar Litai

Destruction and Resistance, by Chaim Lazar Litai. 1985

Massive Jewish Banditry Provokes Polish Reprisals. Jewish Complicity in the Koniuchy Massacre of Poles. Jewish Gestapo Agents. Double Standards The author came from Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) and survived the mass shootings of Jews at Ponary. (pp. 30-31). POLES ACTUALLY TRIED…

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JUDENRAT Big Help to Germans. Jewish Ghetto Police: Overall Summary. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Gutman

Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe, 1933-1945, by Yisrael Gutman (Editor). 1979

The Judenrat and the Jewish Ghetto Police: Various Motives of Jews Serving the Nazis. Same is Applicable to Polish Denouncers and Killers of Fugitive Jews

The highlight of this book, on Jewish leadership and the Shoah, is…

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Choiceless Choices Classic: Invoked for Jewish Collaborators But Never For Non-Jewish Collaborators. Jewish Kapos. Langer

Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit (SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture), by Lawrence L. Langer. 1982. SUNY Press, New York

When is There a Choiceless Choice Situation? Unstated Implications for Jedwabne There are books that become known less for their content, and more…

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Jewish Collaboration No Exculpations. Shabbos Goy. Anti-Jewish Riots Were German-Driven. Jews Refuse to Return Entrusted Jewish Belongings. Jewish Gestapo Agents. Huberband

Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust, by Shimon Huberband, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Robert S. Hirt. 1987

No Exculpations For Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Zydokomuna Prominent. Jews as Well as Poles Engaged in Looting This work elaborates on the Germans burning synagogues during the 1939…

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A Nazi-Collaborating Jew Was Not Driven by Fear of Death: DEFINITIVE WORK. Jewish Ghetto Police. And Jews Not Top Victims (Gypsies Are). Lodz Ghetto. Jewish Passivity. Braatz

From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir Of Privilege and Luck, by Timothy Braatz, Anatol Chari. 2011

Jewish Collaboration; Jewish Complicity in the Holocaust: "Save One's Life" Exculpation Fails. Serving the Enemy to Better One's Own Lot at the Expense of Others We hear a lot nowadays of "Polish complicity…

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At First Poles Treated Worse Than Jews. Christians Hide Among Jews. Anti-Jewish Riots Also Targeted Poles. JUDENRAT Big Help to Germans: Made Deportations Possible, Found Jewish Hideouts. Jewish Gestapo Agents. No Exculpations. Early Genocide-Recognition Equality. Warsaw Ghetto. Ringelblum

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Emmanuel Ringelblum. 1952, 2006

Judenrat Important. Candor on Jewish-Nazi Collaboration and Its Big Help to the Germans in the Holocaust. The Canned Serve-or-Die Exculpation Fails This volume, written by a Jewish historian in hiding during the Shoah, is full of interesting information. Judenrat important.…

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Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die. Long-Debated Jewish Considerations. Daube

Collaboration With Tyranny in Rabbinic Law, by David Daube. 1965. Oxford University Press, New York, Toronto

Rabbinic Law. Jews Turn Over Some of Their Own to an Enemy: A History By way of introduction, historian Ewa Kurek pointed out that, during the German-made Holocaust, some Jewish leaders effectively decided which…

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Jewish Collaboration Actively Prized by Nazis. JUDENRAT Collaboration Crucial. Kasztner Inexcusable. Germans Buy Jewish Favor After WWII. Hecht

Perfidy: The Kastner Affair, by Ben Hecht. 1961

German Guilt Diffusion and Rudolf Kasztner's Jewish-Nazi Collaboration This work indicts both non-Jewish and especially Jewish leaders (e. g. Yitzhak Gruenbaum: p. 50, 258) for having failed to have alleviated the Holocaust. THE CONVENIENT "SELF-HATING JEW" ACCUSATION AGAINST THE AUTHOR Hecht's…

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Jews Indifferent to Gypsies. Jewish Collaboration Especially Cruel. Zionists Push Massive Jewish Emigration. Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational. Tushnet

The Pavement of Hell: 3 Leaders of the Judenrat, by Leonard Tushnet. 1972

Poles Indifferent to Jews? Dig This: Jews Indifferent to Gypsies. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Odious. Karaites Spared. Endeks and Jews Had Agreed That Most Jews Must Leave Poland This three-part book focuses on the lives of three top…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents: Selfish Opportunism. Rebellion Against Judaism. Carnaghi

Betraying Your Own: Jewish Spies and the Deportation of Jews During the Second World War, by Benedetta Luciana Sara Carnaghi. 2020

Proffered Exemption From Deportation Was Not the Only Reason That Jews Spied For the Nazis This is a review of a research article originally published in S.I.M.O.N (Shoah Intervention:…

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Jewish Collaboration Actively Prized by Nazis. Fugitive Jewish Banditry Drove Betrayals of Jews and Jew Killing. Judeopolonia: A Jewish-Invented Term. Prewar 40% Jewish Taxation Rate Unsubstantiated. Kafel

Spotwarzona Przeslosc: Czyli o Zydowskich Zbrodniarzach Wojennych, by Roman Kafel. 2019. Wektory, Wroclaw

Jewish Plunder and Polish Self-Defense Under the German Occupation A SLANDERED PAST is the title of this Polish-language book. It raises many subjects, and I generally focus on those I consider to be relatively unique to this…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Local Jews Disbelieved Early Nazi Anti-Jewish Acts. Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Sordid Behavior: Jews and Poles. Lodz Ghetto. Zelkovitsh

In Those Terrible Days: Writings from the Lodz Ghetto, by Yosef Zelkovitsh. 2003

Like Poles Like Jews in Sordid Behavior, Denunciation For as Little as a Bag of Sugar, etc. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration NOT Dependent Upon Fear of Death Having read many diaries of the Polish Jews who had been…

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Jewish Unjust Enrichment From German-Murdered Jews. Goodbye Jews! a Lie. Jews Exploiting Dead Jews. Lodz Ghetto. Sierakowiak

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto, by Dawid Sierakowiak, Alan Adelson (Editor), Kamil Turowski (Translator). 1998

Jewish Complicity in the 1939 Poland-Destroying Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration and Profiteering in the Lodz Ghetto: "Save One's Life" Exculpation Fails This Holocaust diary touches on quite a…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Example. Jewish Collaboration: Jewish Profiteering and Selfish Opportunism. Jewish Kapos Cruel. Farbstein

The Forgotten Memoirs--Moving Personal Accounts from Rabbis who Survived the Holocaust, by Esther Farbstein. 2011

Jewish Kapos Cruel. Jewish Nazi Collaboration Not Summarily Excused By the Extremity of Circumstances This is a collection, written by rabbis, of the unfolding Holocaust. The rabbis were from Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and other…

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Jewish Collaboration Not All Choiceless Choices. Jewish Collaboration: Jewish Profiteering and Selfish Opportunism–Even Fraternizing With Nazis. No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Tory

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary, by Avraham Tory. 1990

Jewish-Nazi Collaboration: Not All Choiceless Choices (Even Profiteering). Looting: Jews From Poles as Well as Poles From Jews. Germans Wanted No Polish Quisling--A Myth It would be a mistake for the uninitiated reader to suppose that this diary…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents. Fugitive Jews Fear Other Jews As Much As They Fear Poles! Eber

The Choice: Poland, 1939-1945, by Irene Eber. 2004

Fugitive Polish Jews Feared Being Denounced by Jews As Much as They Feared Being Denounced by Poles Irene Eber first describes the idyllic life of herself and her family before the war. [Evidently, Poland was not the pit for Jews as often…

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Sunday Closing Laws. Perks of Jewish Collaboration. Goodbye Jews! a Lie. Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt For the Jews. German Auctions of Jewish Property. What? Jew Still Alive! Overgeneralized. Wolgelernter

The Unfinished Diary: A Chronicle of Tears, by Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter. 2015

Sunday Closing Law. SCHECHITA Law. Prostitution. Draft Dodging. Jewish Collaboration Expansive: Collaboration Detailed. Nazi-Sponsored Auctions of Jewish Property This work has the title it does because the author of the diary, Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelertner, did not survive…

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JUDENRAT “Avoid a Worse Situation” Exculpation Rejected. German Repentance Insincere: War Criminals Unpunished. Arendt

The Jewish Writings, by Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (Editor), Ron H. Feldman (Editor). 2007

"We're All Eichmanns" German Guilt Dilution Repudiated. German Contrition Insincere. Judenrat Collaboration Exculpations Rejected Hannah Arendt's Shoah-related statements are unwelcome to many, and, for this reason, she has been delegitimized by being called "only…

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JUDENRAT Big Help, Perhaps Crucial Help, to the Germans: A Classic Work. Hitler Once Widely Admired. Not Only Jewish Star: Poles’ Letter P Also Genocidal. Planned Extermination of Poles. Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt. 1963

Judenrat Big Help: A Classic, "Controversial" Work Because It Told the Inconvenient Truth About Not-Always-Coerced Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis This classic provides a wealth of information, and upends many of the Holocaust myths…

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JUDENRAT Early Model Tsarist Khappers. Solzhenitsyn Correct. Emerging Jewish Intelligentsia Anti-Polish. Stanislawski

Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855, by Michael Stanislawski. 1983

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Was Right: Jews at First Generally Resisted Modernization, and Then Became Separatist (Jews as Nationality). Khappers: An "Early Judenrat" in Tsarist Russia When Tsar Nicholas I reigned (1825-1855), Poland had…

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JUDENRAT Collaboration Was Confronted At One Time. It Remains a Legitimate Issue. Stauber

The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s: Ideology and Memory, by Roni Stauber. 2007

When Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis Was Grappled-With, Before It Became Excused and Explained Away My review is based on this 2007 English-language edition. The original edition had come out in 2000 in Hebrew.…

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Jewish Collaboration–This Topic Is Repressed or Excused. Jewish Kapos Culpable. Ben Naftali

International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, by Orna Ben-Naftali. 2011

Israeli Trials of Jewish Kapos. Double Standards on Collaboration. Redefining "Nazi Collaboration", and Suppressing Information, In Order To Allow Jews to Summarily Escape Blame, While Non-Jewish Collaborators Remain Blamed The various authors of this work focus on…

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Jewish Collaboration Double Standards. Unequal Justice Favors Jewish Defendants. Victimhood Competition. Bazyler

Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, by Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer. 2016

Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis. Jewish Treason Double Standards I offer an analytic perspective on this book. JEWISH COLLABORATION WITH THE NAZIS: AN EXCULPATORY APPROACH The most disappointing chapter in this book is…

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Jewish Collaboration Selective Excuses. Double Standards. Knowledge vs. Internalized Knowledge of Holocaust. Holocaust Not Unique: Nazis Released Some Jews. Bauer

Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945, by Yehuda Bauer. 1994

Jews Sold Not All Exterminated. Double Standards on Nazi Collaboration and Widespread Holocaust Awareness. Jewish Victimhood Absolutism. Newer Books Available (Listed) My review identifies and focuses on deeper issues, related to the Shoah, than the specific Jewish-Nazi negotiations for the…

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JUDENRAT Collaboration: Obey-or-Die Exculpation False. Jewish Ghetto Police. Goda

Jewish Histories of the Holocaust, by Norman J. W. Goda (Editor). 2014a

Jewish Corruption, Collaboration. Not Instant Death for Jewish Ghetto Police Disobeying German Orders to Ship Jews to the Death Camps

The reflexive response to Hannah Arendt (EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM), on the excessive obedience of the JUDENRAETE and…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents Harmed Poles. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Choiceless Choices Came Late. Rabinovici

Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945, by Doron Rabinovici. 2011

Holocaust, Like Other Genocides, Was Limited, and "Rational". Austrian Jewish Informers Spied on Poland For the Third Reich. Strong Exculpatory Bias on Jewish Collaboration With the Nazis This work, written by a Viennese Jew, is…

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Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Obsequious to Nazis: JUDENRAT Diligence in Serving Germans. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Hilberg

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian, by Raul Hilberg. 2002

Squarely Faces Jewish Congeniality to the Germans--Even Nazi Germans. Hilberg Implicitly Confronts German Guilt Diffusion for the Holocaust This work is semi-autobiographical in nature. It provides insights into how the Jewish author Hilberg developed and…

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Ewa Kurek Correct: Nazi Germany Granted Considerable Judenrat Autonomy. Jewish Ghetto Police Classic. Katzenelson

The Song of the Murdered Jewish People, by Yitzhak Katzenelson. 1980.

German-Jewish Rapprochement, Early in WWII, Chilled Polish Sympathies. The German-Made Holocaust--and Jewish-Nazi Collaboration--In Fact and in Poetry Yitzhak Katzenelson considers the implications of the JUDENRAT. He then dwells on the forced evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the dispatch…

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JUDENRAT Deceives Jews: Denies Nazi Extermination. JUDENRAT Were Scoundrels. Hitler and Big Capitalists. Tenenbaum

Zloczow Memoir: 1939-1944 a Chronicle of Survival, by Samuel Tennenbaum. 2001

Judenrat Big Help. The "Jews Had It Bad in Poland" Myth. Not Only Poles: Jews Looted Too. JEWISH NAZI COLLABORATION. Hitler and Big Capitalism: The Facts This book touches on many issues related to Polish-Jewish relations and of…

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JUDENRAT Deceives Jews: Denies Nazi Extermination. JUDENRAT Opposed Jewish Flight and Fight. Ewa Kurek Correct: Jews Decide Which Jews Will Live and Which Jews Will Die. Cholawsky

The Jews of Bielorussia [Belarus] During World War II, by Shalom Cholawski, Yehuda Bauer (Foreword), Shalom Cholawsky. 1997

The Ambivalent Attitude, of the JUDENRAT, to Jewish Flight From the Ghettos, and To Fighting the Nazis. Media-Criticized Polish Scholar Ewa Kurek Was Right This book has a rather anti-Polish tone.…

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JUDENRAT Deceives Jews: Denies Nazi Extermination. JUDENRAT Exploits Jews. German Death Penalty Drove Betrayals of Jews by Poles. Jewish Views: Holocaust God Punished the Jews. Zydokomuna. 1939 War. Ringel

The Rawa Ruska Memorial Book, by A. M. Ringel (ed.) 1973, 2017. Rawa Ruska Organization in Israel, Tel-Aviv, New Jersey

1939 Jewish Conduct. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration: Judenrat Exploits Jews. Contains Vituperative Anti-Polish Slurs This yizkor (yizker) book, like many others like them, tends to ramble about many different topics. I…

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Jewish Passivity: Nazis Guard Jews Less Than They Guard Poles! Nuremberg Laws Protected Germans From Jews, Not Poles From Jews. Jews Admittedly Lacked a Military Tradition. Poliakov

Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the Destruction of the Jews of Europe, by Léon Poliakov, Reinhold Niebuhr (Foreword). 1956

German Guilt Diffusion Confronted. Jewish Passivity. Ewa Kurek Right. Polish Death Camp Mendacity Irony. The Unfolding Polokaust Leon Poliakov, a French Jew and Holocaust scholar, provides the…

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JUDENRAT Big Help to Germans. Motive: Power and Control. Late Jewish Awareness of the Holocaust. Polish Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews. Lubetkin

In the Days of Destruction and Revolt, by Zivia Lubetkin, Yehiel Yanay (Editor), Ishai Tubbin (Translator). 1981

Jewish Nazi Collaboration: No Softening the Blow. Jews Slow to Accept Fact of Holocaust. No Denouncers Needed: Germans Found Fugitive Jews Directly Themselves The author provides much detail on Jewish political movements and…

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