Some aspects of the Yishuv leadership's activities during the Holocaust

This paper centres around a few basic questions - who were the leaders, who knew what, when and how in the Yishuv leadership about the reality in Europe; how did they react; what was the scale of priorities of their interests and activities; how were their intentions translated into deeds; what were the objective possibilities of lending a helping hand and of rescuing; and to what extent did the leaders succeed in exploiting the objective favorable factors and how effective were their actions