cable that vanished: Tabenkin and Ya'ari to the last surviving ghetto fighters
TitleThe cable that vanished: Tabenkin and Ya'ari to the last surviving ghetto fighters
Author
Call numberS940.5318/002
Object number04187eh
Place of publicationJerusalem
PublisherYad Vashem
Year of publication
2013
Dimensionspp95-138
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal "Yad Vashem Studies" Vol 41Part 2, 2013 p95-138
Description
Ronen looks at two major aspects of a June 1943 telegram sent by Yitzhak Tabenkin calling on the armed underground in the Bedzin ghetto to forgo their revolt plan and to save themselves. Leaders of the underground rejected these instructions. For decades the existence of this telegram was doubted, but Ronen brings much factual evidence to demonstrate that the telegram did exist. Analysis of these issues sheds light on the different perspectives of people in the midst of murder versus people outside