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