Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Genocide Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2001) 89-96
Keywords:
Ben-Gurion, David,
;
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Zionism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Poses the question as to whether David Ben-Gurion and other members of the Jewish Agency Executive changed their decision, expressed at a meeting in Jerusalem on 11 June 1944 (and opposed by Yitzhak Gruenbaum), not to ask the Allies to bomb locations (e.g. Auschwitz) where there were Jews. Since, less than a month later, Chaim Weizmann and Moshe Shertok (later, Sharett) did ask the British government to carry out such bombings, several Israeli scholars have claimed that Ben-Gurion and the Executive must have changed their minds. If this were so, then the Allies would emerge as having been unresponsive to Jewish calls for help. Argues, however, that no documentation has been found that would corroborate such a reversal of Ben-Gurion's position.
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