A Polish Jewish historian has taken issue with views expressed recently that there was a general absence of resistance by the Jewish victims of the Nazis, it was reported here today from Warsaw.
In the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, Prof. Ber Mark said that Raoul Hilberg, author of the recent book. “The Destruction of the European Jews,” had advocated his thesis on the absence of resistance among European Jewry without knowing even a small part of the data, “apart from the fact that his approach is wrong and distorted.”
Describing Dr. Hilberg’s assertion that scholars know all there is to know about the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt as “absurd,” Prof. Mark said: “We have not exhausted the whole of the available material on the subject, nor do we know what is available, as more and more documents and other data come to light almost every week.”
The Bulletin also contained a hitherto unpublished collection of documents with annotations by Tatiana Bernstein about forced labor in the Warsaw Ghetto; and featured a previously unpublished study by Ruta Sakowska of communications in the ghetto.
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