Volume 20, Number 10 · June 14, 1973
Intolerable Memories
By Neal Ascherson
Judenrat
by Isaiah Trunk
Macmillan, 664 pp., $14.95
Hunter and Hunted: Human History of the Holocaust
selected and edited by Gerd Korman
Viking, 320 pp., $8.95
October '43
by Aage Bertelsen, translated by Milly Lindholm
Gross Brothers Printing Co., Inc.(New Jersey), 246 pp., $1.25
The Destiny of Europe's Gypsies
by Donald Kenrick, by Grattan Puxon
Basic Books, 256 pp., $6.95
Maimonides said: 'If pagans shall tell them [the Jews], 'Give us one of yours and we shall kill him, otherwise we shall kill all of you,' they should all be killed and not a single Jewish soul should be delivered.' Rumkowski, the leader of the Judenrat at Lodz and dictator, under the Nazis, of the ghetto, said in 1942: 'Perhaps it is a satanic idea, and again perhaps it is not—but I cannot restrain myself from mentioning it. Deliver to me those sick ones, and it may be possible to save the healthy ones instead.' The militant Zionist leader Jabotinsky visited the Jews of Czernowitz on the eve of war, and listened to those who were still reluctant to make for Palestine. He left them with an epigram that was brutal and truthful and useless: 'Yiddishe kinderlech, lernt eich schiessen.' You'd better learn to shoot!
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