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Book SynopsisDuring World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi rule in Eastern Europe. The German authorities established in each ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living standards. This work analyzes situations where the Councils and ghetto police were forced to send their own communities to death.
Trade Review"Judenrat confirms one conclusion: the Nazis created a hell on earth where the best could falter and the worst could show a flash of decency. Suddenly, one realizes what happens to people in a world of absolute evil. Mr. Trunk again teaches us that we must distinguish between victims and criminals, as well as between criminal victims and criminals. The greatest virtue of this important book based upon half a decade of research and sound scholarship is that it is not an objective study. Objectivity would be indecent here."—
[London] Times Literary Supplement"This is the first full-length account of the Judenrat. . . . [It is] an exhaustive study of a complex subject, and Trunk’s closely documented descriptions of the ghettos and how the Judenrat held them together are stark and unforgettable."—
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