Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,2 (1994) 164-201
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
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Jewish leadership History
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Relates the history of the Working Group, a small group of Jewish activists in Slovakia, headed by Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann, which, working under the Ústredňa Židov, the Slovakian Judenrat, sponsored rescue operations. Its activities began in February 1942, when it became known that the Slovakian government was planning the deportation of Jews to Poland. The group's method of rescue was to bribe Slovakian officials, and even the German "advisor" Dieter Wisliceny, to stave off the deportations. The Working Group also tried to assist Jews who had been deported, and Jewish refugees from Poland. In autumn 1942 the group developed the so-called "Europa Plan" to save the remaining Jews of Europe through bribery; the plan proved to be abortive. In August 1944 Slovakia was occupied by the German Army; the Working Group miscalculated the situation, believing that it would be possible to negotiate with the new German authorities in the same way as with Wisliceny. The negotiations failed, the deportations resumed, and part of the Working Group leadership perished.
Note:
On a group of Jewish activists engaged in rescue work in Slovakia.
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In Hebrew:
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"מנהיגות בעת מצוקה" (תשסא) 30-78
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