Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
גלעד; מאסף לתולדות יהדות פולין
Angaben zur Quelle:
טו-טז (תשנח) קסט-קצ
Keywords:
ברש, אפרים
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jewish councils
Abstract:
Barasz, born in Volkovysk in 1892, was an engineer, communal leader and active Zionist; he directed the institutions of the Jewish community of Białystok from the 1930s. In 1941 he became the "de facto" head of the Judenrat in the Białystok ghetto. Rabbi Gedaliyahu Rosenmann, the official head of the Judenrat, encouraged Barasz and openly supported him. Discusses Barasz's views regarding the role of forced labor in the struggle for survival, his survival strategies, his relations with the Nazi authorities and with the Jewish Council, the Jewish police in the ghetto, the population of the ghetto, and the various resistance groups. Although his belief in a productive, disciplined, and organized ghetto helped to keep alive the majority of its population for two years, it did not prevent the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1943. Barasz was probably murdered in November 1943, when many of the Jews in the camps around Lublin were murdered.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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