Collaborator or would-be rescuer? The Barenblat trial and the image of a Judenrat member in 1960s Israel

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