Shoah: from a Torah perspective

The authors address the familiar but difficult question of the passivity of Jews during the Shoah from a halakhic (religious-legal) perspective. They ask: was that passivity, whether real or imagined, an act of shameful cowardice or proper martyrdom? They are particularly concerned - especially within the Jewish and Israeli communities- of the accusation that among Hitler's victims only the Jews went "like sheep to the slaughter."Why, they ask, does this myth still exist?