Collaborator or would-be rescuer? The Barenblat trial and the image of a Judenrat member in 1960s Israel
TitleCollaborator or would-be rescuer? The Barenblat trial and the image of a Judenrat member in 1960s Israel
Author
Call numberS940.5318/002
Object number04187cd
Place of publicationJerusalem
PublisherYad Vashem
Year of publication
2011
Dimensionspp117-167
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal "Yad Vashem Studies" Vol 39 Part 1, 2011 pp117-167
Description
Examines the development of attitudes in Israel and among survivors to Jewish officials under the Nazis during the Holocaust, through the prism of the war crimes trials of Barenblat. He served as a Jewish policeman and was accused by some survivors of having turned Jews over to the Germans for deportation to death. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but was acquitted in the appeal