Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (1993) 335-368
Keywords:
Lichtheim, Richard,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Richard Lichtheim, the representative of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency in Geneva in the war years, was one of the first Jewish observers to realize that the Nazis were carrying out a systematic extermination of the Jews. At the beginning of the war, Lichtheim believed that the ghettoization of the Jews in Poland was the only aim of the Nazis, but in March-June 1942 he understood that there was a Nazi plan to destroy the Jews and that the deportations to the East meant death. Using the information he received from various sources, he tried to impel the Allies and the Vatican to undertake political measures against Germany and its satellites, as well as to convince the Zionist leadership to place the rescue of the European Jews at the top of its international agenda and not to offer immigration to Palestine as an exclusive solution.
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