The liberation of Auschwitz proved to be a real problem for the judaic Agency in Palestine. The survivors of the 3rd Reich corrupted the image of the unbreakable pioneers of Zionism, which tamed the arabian desert.
In 1949 Israeli newspapers were full of advertisements by 7 Dwarfs from Auschwitz. A household dance-musical troupe from Romania was a phenomenon due to the fact that the almost intact survived the Holocaust. The Ovitz came from Maramuresh, survived Auschwitz, and after the war they went to Israel. Here they became vaudeville stars, but the name of their bodies was the only mention to the dramatic experiences of the time erstwhile they were the favourite object of Dr. Josef Mengele's experiments. Their war stories in Israel were of no interest to anyone at the time. The country that was to emergence was to be a reparation for the extermination of Jews in Europe, needed stories about brave heroes, not about the Holocaust.
"Thing" goes to Israel
“It takes 5,000 Jews from Europe to make Israel a madhouse,” wrote 1 of the judaic Agency representatives in a study seeking candidates to settle in Israel in a war-torn Europe. Holocaust survivors were not perfect candidates. According to the Zionist interpretation, European Jews died just due to the fact that they rejected Zionism and the construction of the State of Israel. They did not take the chance to escape erstwhile it was possible. Those who survived were of course helped, but at the same time, according to Tom Segev in the book "Seven Million", they were called "Soap", referring to the popular story of mass production by III A mass of soap from human fat. This word showed the level of contempt shown to them for weakness and deficiency of the will to fight, which they were expected to show in the face of the Holocaust. The effects of their traumatic war experiences besides raised doubts.
– These are human ruins, a large community of beggars, degenerated, retarded and weakened not only physically and mentally, but besides morally," wrote judaic Brigade soldiers, operating after the war in Europe under British command. The Zionists of Palestine did not have much knowing of the Holocaust due to the fact that they truly knew small about it. During the war, the Holocaust press there wrote little, fearing to talk out against the then ruling Palestinian English, who even after the war with Hitler started turning ships with refugees from Europe. As a result, the existing diary "Haarec" the eyewitness account of the massacre of Jews in Kharkiv considered little crucial than the article about the triumph of the judaic football squad in the friendly match in Damascus. The judaic Agency in Palestine, head of judaic settlement, besides treated the subject as a stepmother. The Head of the Agency David Ben Gurion did not appear at all at the presentation of a study on the situation of Jews in Europe. The remainder of the current heads of the Agency after reading the evidence for the existence of gas chambers and crematory furnaces in Auschwitz set up a committee to draw up a message on the matter. Then everyone moved on to the next item. A union dispute over working conditions at the Assis cannery in Tel Aviv was discussed.
It's a disaster. I'm not saying they didn't do anything, but they didn't think adequate about it. Saving Jews was not their priority. For them, the most crucial was the emergence of the state – the Israeli historian Saul Friedlander commented. Ben Gurion acknowledged this back in the 1930s, recognizing the NSDAP triumph in Germany as an impulse that would yet encourage European Jews to support the Zionist movement and emigration to Palestine.
Human substance Is Worse
– There's more money in the streets than we've always dreamed of. Here is simply a chance to build and develop, which we have never had before and we will never have – wrote Moshe Bejlinson, an envoy of Yishuwu negotiating with III of Berlin It is the Reich's agreement to decision thousands of German Jews to Palestine. The agreement, known as Haawara, concluded in 1933 continued until the mediate of planet War II, giving the judaic Agency in Palestine the essential cash injection and settlers a conflict with deficiency of money and volunteers. The agency conducted a careful selection of candidates. They stood on single men and women of working age due to the fact that they were the perfect material for creating a fresh Israeli nation. However, it was not that simple, due to the fact that most people willing to leave were family-loaded representatives of the German mediate class. small useful in a country planned as a giant agricultural cooperative.
– Human material coming from Germany is getting worse – the judaic Agency representatives complained after a year of Hitler's rule. A careful selection of candidates was introduced. It occurred that the Agency had doubts whether to admit 120 prisoners of the camp in Dachau to Palestine, whose release was negotiated by American Jews in 1937 due to the fact that most of them were not connected with the Zionist movement. "The land of Israel exists present only for the selected class, it is young people in red, socialist workers," complained in 1939 the leader of right-wing Zionists, Zeew Żabatoński, accusing the controlling Left Agency of obstructing immigration against Jews of another than left-wing views. “We could save hundreds of thousands more people,” said Jochanan Bader, a close associate of Menachem Begin, head of the right-wing Betar organization operating in Poland.
ISRAEL DIDN'T LOOK FOR US
Antek Cukuraman, 1 of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, waited 8 months after the war ended for representatives of the judaic Agency from Palestine to appear in Poland. “Israel was not looking for us, we felt abandoned,” he complained afterwards.
In Central Europe there was a bricha, or escape of surviving Jews to the West. Like before Hitler came to power, most of them did not go to Palestine. The goal of the bricha was mainly the United States with a halt in Europe free of communists. The judaic agency in Palestine was rather late to realize that searching for perfect pioneers could lose the chance of any settlers, and thus the chance to convince the planet that the safety of the survivors of the Holocaust depends on the establishment of the State of Israel. The epope of the "Exodus" ship, carrying illegal judaic immigrants from Europe to Palestine, became a means of propaganda offensive. pacified in the Mediterranean by the British, sent to Cyprus and from there to France 'Exodus' became a symbol of the postwar tragedy of European Jews. After 3 weeks, the press in Europe wrote about the floating Auschwitz, and David Ben Gurion steered the full case so as to force the British to send the unfortunates back to where they fled, that is, to a transitional camp in Germany. A two-month walk ended in a trauma of respective 100 erstwhile prisoners of extermination camps, but from a propaganda point of view it was a Zionist victory. The public of the full planet was convinced that the judaic people needed their own state. Only that those whose wartime passages enabled this change were not welcome in Israel.
TWO HOLOCAUSTS
“We have 2 races in Israel: a race of gods, coming before the war or born there, and the inferior, ugly, contemptible Jews who came after the war,” claimed Israeli author Judith Hendel, born in Warsaw. These inferior races were considered to be melancholic melancholics who had small cognition of Hebrew. Political officers of the Israeli army, in which all 3rd soldier was a survivor of the European Holocaust, claimed that they had to be taught human morality.
Their past was of no interest to anyone, unless it was about selling tickets for another performance by 7 Dwarfs from Auschwitz. The stories of people like Joel Brand, an activist of the judaic Agency from Budapest, who was active in the effort to save hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, did not go public. Brand was an emissary taking Adolf Eichmann's proposal to Palestine, ready to negociate the removal of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz. Ignored by the judaic Agency and arrested in Aleppo by British Brand did nothing. He then tormented himself with remorse, and yet wrote a book whose edition in Israel tried to block the leadership of the governing Labour Party. David Ben Gurion then demanded global assistance in exchange for accepting survivors from the Holocaust. The publication of books about the fact that nothing was done to save them during the war was no good for anyone. Brand, like another survivors, waited a long time for his time. Only 8 years after the war in Israel began to talk about what happened to Jews in Europe. The program provided for 2 lessons in the Holocaust during the semester. It took another 10 years to grow the curriculum, and who knows if it would have lasted longer if it had not been for the trial brought from Argentina to Israel by Adolf Eichmann. The large media show on this occasion reminded the planet of the Holocaust.
Four Brands for the Day in Auschwitz
– Gas against the Jews! – this cry of Jochanan Bader, a typical of the Cherut party, broke through the sounds of riots coming from the streets adjacent to the Kneset building. Demonstrators, heated to conflict by Cherut leader Menachem Begin, threw stones, police responded with teardrop gas. The wind rapidly moved the gas clouds towards parliament. He was 7 January 1952 – Members discussed the war reparations agreement he was about to pay Israel Konrad Adenauer. The thought of reparation was not new. He first appeared in 1940, erstwhile most European Jews were inactive alive. The first law firms offering to compose damages lawsuits from Germany appeared in Tel Aviv just after the Wansee conference, on which the plan for the final solution of the judaic issue was approved.
Menachem Begin, a lawyer educated in Warsaw, Betaru leader, Anders' army soldier and anti-British judaic partisan veteran in Palestine, knew this very well. For him, the agreement on claims was a humiliating mistake, crossing off Zionist ideals. “From the dream of the Jews about his own home, Israel was turning into a country surviving from receiving refugees,” said Begin. However, then ruling in Israel, David Ben Gurion saw in a deal with Adenaur a chance to rip a young state out of an economical collapse, just as in the 1930s he treated Haawara's agreement, signed with the 3rd Reich. The riot - negotiated details of the agreement with Germany best show Israel’s attitude toward destruction. For example, it was established that 5 brands could be obtained for each day of their stay in Auschwitz. The German offices checked everything meticulously and corresponded with Prussian precision. The Israeli archives preserved specified correspondence: "We registered your evidence that erstwhile you arrived at the camp you said that you were older to avoid extermination as a child. But your résumé actually indicates that you were 18 months older – so we don't realize why you gave a false date during your registration at the camp." The humiliation of thousands of victims of the 3rd Reich was the price Ben Gurion's left was willing to pay for his cooperation with postwar Germany. In the end, however, he won Menachem Begin and his approach to the Holocaust.
ISRAEL IN THE EIGHTER WAR WITH HITLER
In 1980, the Israeli army again waged war with 'new Hitler', trying to prevent 'new Holocaust'. Hitler resided in Beirut and was known worldwide as Jaser Arafat. "I felt like I was sending troops to Berlin to destruct Hitler in his bunker," Menachem Begin recalled after years erstwhile he sent an army as Prime Minister of Israel to conquer Lebanon. In the 1970s, the increasing strength of Begin made the Holocaust a political theme. He was the first to consider the Holocaust a central event in Israel's history. Begin appealed to the Holocaust by signing peace with Egypt, justifying an air attack on Iraqi atomic installations and invasion of Lebanon.
After the massacre of the Palestinians in the Lebanese camps of Sabra and Shatila, Israel was placed on the censored, Begin thundered that after Auschwitz no 1 has the right to teach Jews morality. It was a dangerous rhetoric. After the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada, the army suspended mandatory visits to your Jad due to the fact that it turned out that the horrors of the Holocaust inspire the soldiers to violent behaviour towards the Palestinians. There were shocking reports in the press of individuals called Auschwitz platoons or Demianiów platoons, which dealt absolutely with arabian civilians. I don't think that's precisely how he pictured the function of Jad as your originator, Mordecai Shenhabi. "It would be possible to plant trees for the commemoration of loved ones for a certain amount," Szenhabi wrote in 1942, erstwhile the extermination had only just begun. By 1953, however, only half a million trees were planted, and sponsors complained that the judaic people did not want to remember. Shenhabi succeeded in doing something else – he created Jad Yours as the center for commemorating the Holocaust. The Israeli MFA even went to the problem of torpedoing the initiative of diaspora Jews who wanted to make a competitive centre in Paris.
The climax of Israel’s change in attitudes toward the victims of the Holocaust was the thought of posthumously giving them all Israeli citizenship. However, there have been doubts as to who of the murdered to be considered possible citizens? After all, many of them died just due to the fact that they were not curious in Zionism and going to Palestine erstwhile it was inactive possible. Eventually, the legal problem prevailed – it was impossible to give citizenship to individual who was dead at the time of the establishment of the state, which at the same time did not be erstwhile candidates for citizenship were inactive alive. So it became an honorary citizenship. A valid certificate can be purchased for $12 in your Jad. Thus the victims of Auschwitz received designation in a country that had come a long way from deficiency of interest through shame and contempt to the state-sanctioned cult of the Holocaust. It is no wonder that fewer people present remember what David Ben Gurion said erstwhile asked if he had taken the problem to realize the Holocaust. The father of the founder of Israel would not like the modern: – What is there to understand? They died, that's all.
CITATES IN THE TEXT FROM THE BOOK OF TOM SEGEVA 'SEVEN MILION' SWN 2012
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