It Happened ON OUR PLANET

Moral Dilemmas among Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust

By Yitzhak Arad

 

It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work presents generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.

 

NIS 182.00

In confronting the moral problems raised in this research, I find myself emotionally overwhelmed by them…. I feel as if I am present in the events described in this research, and I incessantly ask myself: What would I have done? How would I have behaved? How would I have responded to that reality?

Yitzhak (Tolka) Arad

As a former partisan, Holocaust survivor, brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces, historian, and chairman of Yad Vashem, Yitzhak (Tolka) Arad contributed much important historical research and insight about the Holocaust during his long life. In this thought-provoking final work, Arad presents the impossible moral dilemmas experienced by the Jews in the reality of the Holocaust.

Through excerpts from diaries, memoirs, archival material, and research works, Arad addresses some of the most difficult moral questions among Jews from this time. How did the different Judenräte respond when they were ordered to carry out the horrific orders of the Nazis? Is it justified to risk the lives of others in order to save oneself in the cruelty of the concentration camps? To whom should one give medicine in the case of insufficient medical supplies? Should the underground organizations risk the lives of the masses to fight the enemy? Arad examines these moral issues and others from an unquestionably unique perspective as an eyewitness to the Holocaust, and he includes his own moral dilemmas both in the ghetto and during his time as a partisan.

It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work will present generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.

 

In confronting the moral problems raised in this research, I find myself emotionally overwhelmed by them…. I feel as if I am present in the events described in this research, and I incessantly ask myself: What would I have done? How would I have behaved? How would I have responded to that reality?

Yitzhak (Tolka) Arad

As a former partisan, Holocaust survivor, brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces, historian, and chairman of Yad Vashem, Yitzhak (Tolka) Arad contributed much important historical research and insight about the Holocaust during his long life. In this thought-provoking final work, Arad presents the impossible moral dilemmas experienced by the Jews in the reality of the Holocaust.

Through excerpts from diaries, memoirs, archival material, and research works, Arad addresses some of the most difficult moral questions among Jews from this time. How did the different Judenräte respond when they were ordered to carry out the horrific orders of the Nazis? Is it justified to risk the lives of others in order to save oneself in the cruelty of the concentration camps? To whom should one give medicine in the case of insufficient medical supplies? Should the underground organizations risk the lives of the masses to fight the enemy? Arad examines these moral issues and others from an unquestionably unique perspective as an eyewitness to the Holocaust, and he includes his own moral dilemmas both in the ghetto and during his time as a partisan.

It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work will present generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.

 

מפרט המוצר
Year 2023
ISBN 978-965-308-688-3
Catalog No. 446
No. of Pages 128 pp.
No. of Pages 382 pp.
Size 17X24 cm.
Format Hard Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem
Translator Dan Gillon
תגיות מוצר
גולשים שקנו מוצר זה קנו גם

מדיניות הרדיפות וחיי היהודים בגרמניה הנאצית, כרך א': חלק ראשון

מבחר תעודות 1933 - 1945 

עורך: וולף גרונר
עורכי המהדורה: גיא מירון, סוזנה היים

כרך זה פורס לפני הקוראים העבריים מבחר עשיר של תעודות על חיי היהודים בגרמניה הנאצית מעליית המשטר הנאצי עד פרוץ מלחמת העולם השנייה. חלקו הראשון, הרייך הגרמני 1937-1933 , מסתמך על הכרך הראשון בסדרת התעודות הגרמנית על תולדות רדיפתם ורציחתם של יהודי אירופה בידי גרמניה הנאצית:
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945 (VEJ)

 

 התעודות, המסודרות בסדר כרונולוגי, נותנות ביטוי למגוון נקודות מבט על האירועים: של היהודים שחיו בגרמניה תחת המשטר הנאצי; של החברה הגרמנית הלא־יהודית; של יהודים מחוץ לגרמניה; ושל גורמים בין־לאומיים. הן משקפות באופן בלתי אמצעי את תהליכי שלילת זכויותיהם והדרתם של היהודים מן החברה הגרמנית ואת דרכי התמודדותם של היהודים – הן בתור יחידים הן בתור קהילה – עם השלכות הנישול והבידוד החברתי בחיי היום־יום.

NIS 104.00

On Duty - The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust

On Duty - The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust

By Jan Grabowski


The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the extermination of the Jews of Poland. The uniformed police has been an enthusiastic executor of all German directives regarding the Jews.

Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, 1943


Shortly after the occupation of Poland in the fall of 1939, the Germans created the Blue Police, consisting mainly of prewar Polish police officers. Within a short time, this police force was responsible for enforcing many anti-Jewish regulations issued by the Nazis. Who were these policemen, and how did they transform from ordinary policemen to murderous executioners? And what was the role of the Germans in this horrifying picture?

NIS 182.00

הר הזיכרון

אתגר הנצחת השואה והגבורה ביד ושם, 1942-1976

דורון בר

הספר הר הזיכרון עוסק ברובד המוקדם של הזיכרון הפיזי ביד ושם מאז נבט בשנת 1942 הרעיון להקים על אדמת ארץ-ישראל אתר הנצחה לנרצחים בשואה וללוחמים בנאצים ועד שהושלם השלב הראשון של תהליך העיצוב הפיזי של האתר באמצע שנות השבעים של המאה העשרים.

במחקר מעורר מחשבה זה נפרסות לפני הקורא השכבות ההיסטוריות המרכיבות את הר הזיכרון באמצעות תיאור תהליך התכנון והבנייה של מכלול
המבנים והאנדרטאות שעל ההר והצגת השאלות הערכיות בדבר הדרך הראויה להנציח את השואה ואת הגבורה באמצעים פיזיים אדריכלים.

NIS 104.00

Written in a Barn: The Diary of a Young Woman from Vilna

Ruth Leimenzon Engles| Edited by Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky

 

At last, I have gotten a notebook in which to write. I have a pencil. I will try. Maybe it will make it easier to push through the days. It’s hard for me. As soon as dawn breaks, my first thought is: how does one endure until the end of the day.
Ruth Leimenzon Engles, May 15, 1944

A few days after the Germans occupied Vilna at the end of June 1941, Ruth Leimenzon’s husband was seized by local collaborators and was never seen again. Ruth, the sole survivor of her murdered family, managed to survive two years in the ghetto using her intelligence and common sense, helped by luck and perhaps miracles. Just two days before the ghetto’s liquidation in September 1943, Ruth escaped with the help of a Christian woman, her former boss’ wife, and found a hiding place in a barn on a farm 20 kilometers from Vilna, where she hid for nearly a year. During the last two months in the barn, Ruth wrote a diary in Yiddish describing her three-year ordeal.

NIS 104.00
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