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"During the Second World War, Nazi authorities appointed 'Jewish Councils' (Judenräte) to help with the administration of the non- ghettoized and ghettoized Jewish communities in regions occupied by Germany or in the German sphere of influence. Ghettoization was envisaged as an intermediary (and convenient) stage before the implementation of a 'final solution' to the so-called Jewish Question. During and especially after the war, many Jews criticized members of the Judenräte, the ghetto police, and prisoner functionaries as Nazi collaborators and traitors. After the defeat of Nazism, some of the surviving “Jewish Council” members were attacked, marginalized, or prosecuted for their wartime conduct in criminal and/or honor courts.1 Busy with the work of reconstruction, postwar societies across Europe and Israel celebrated the heroic models of human behavior under Nazi rule embodied by partisans, ghetto fighters, and other armed resistors. Consequently, little attention was paid to the diversity of the aims and positions of Jewish functionaries during the controversial cooperation-collaboration of 'Jewish Councils' with German occupation authorities."
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978-3-8353-8099-8
Publication Date
1-22-2025
Publisher
Wallstein Verlag
City
Göttingen
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Ionescu, Ştefan Cristian. “Providential Rescuers or Collaborationist Traitors? Depictions of Romania’s Jewish Center (Centrala Evreilor) and Its Leaders in Jewish Diaries, 1942-1944” in Jewish Councils" in Nazi Europe, 1938-1945. A Pan-European Perspective, No. 6 (2025): 163-186. https://doi.org/10.46500/83535410-008
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