INDEX

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• Adler, Stanislav, 14–15
• Agranat, Shimon, 165–166
• Aharoni, Haim. See Molchadsky, Haim
• Alexander, Vera, 175–176
• Alterman, Nathan, 162–163, 171
• Arendt, Hannah, 182–184, 189, 204, 214, 218, 259n58
• Ashkenazi, Deborah, 115
• Ashkenazy, Vladimir, 205
• Avatichi, Michael, 81, 97
• Avishar, Pinchas, 1, 139–141
• Avnery, Uri, 204–205, 259n59

• Bader, Yochanan, 144, 213
• Baiski, Hanokh, 249n13
• Banik, Andrej, 7, 71–76, 89; acquittal of, 8, 111–112; charges against, 88–89, 91, 257n6; preliminary examination of, 86–93; trial of, 102–113, 160–161
• Banik, Antow, 237n39
• Barenblat, Hirsch (Henryk), 6–7, 25–34, 26, 41; acquittal of, 8, 187, 233n35; appeal of, 205–209; Arendt on, 259n58; charges against, 84, 187–188, 190–191; Eichmann and, 204; sentence of, 203; trial of, 187–205, 201
• Barenblat, Maria (Kasia). See Szancer (Barenblat), Maria (Kasia)
• Barkai, Yerachmiel, 81
• Barnea, Dov, 186
• Bar-Yehuda (Idelsohn), Israel, 77–80
• Bar-Zakai, Natan, 132, 138
• Bashan, Raphael, 176
• Baumblat, Simcha, 63–64
• Baumgarten, Sarah, 46–47
• Becher, Kurt, 156
• Begin, Menachem, 64, 145, 214
• Ben-Eliezer, Aryeh, 144
• Ben-Gurion, David, 15–16, 62, 259n59; on collaborators, 52, 78–79; party newspaper of, 87; reparations negotiations by, 145, 146
• Ben-Porat, Miriam, 87–92, 89
• Ben-Zeev, Moshe, 191, 209
• Ben-Zeev, Zvi (Herman Grauzam), 256n1
• Ben-Zvi, Izhak, 52–53, 61
• Berkowitz, Pinchas, 127
• Berlin, Asher, 45
• Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 216
• Bilsky, Leora, 252n68
• Blachash, Kalman, 197
• Blau, Issachar, 120
• B’nai B’rith, 55
• Bogonsky, Mendel, 170–171
• Bokorova, Ibola, 104
• Bondy, Ruth, 124
• Borestein, Itzik, 34
• Boymann, Miriam, 99–100
• Brand, Hansi, 181
• Brot, Nathan, 249n12

• capital punishment, 4, 125, 140–142, 147, 233n29, 248n71
• Central Committee of Polish Jews (CCPJ), 23–24, 30–33
• Cohn, Benjamin, 115, 128
• Cohn, Haim, 157, 167–168; Banik trial and, 87, 91–92, 102–103, 160–161, 260n62; Barenblat trial and, 205–207; on death penalty, 140, 248n71; Kastner trial and, 5, 103, 156–160, 165–167, 251n49; on Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law, 205, 209, 213–214, 251n57
• Cohn, Leo, 102
• collaborators, 47–54; absolving of, 205–209; Alterman on, 162–164; Arendt on, 182–184; Ben-Gurion on, 52, 78–79; Hausner on, 173–177, 183; revenge against, 12–19, 13, 17, 44–46, 152–153, 179. See also kapos
• Crime of Genocide [Prevention and Punishment] Law. See genocide
• crimes against humanity, 4, 97, 118; death penalty for, 141–142, 147–148; definitions of, 95, 96, 101, 140, 248n68; war crimes versus, 139–140
• crimes against the Jewish people, 29–30, 76–77, 86, 233n35, 238n55
• Czerniakow, Adam, 49–50, 200

• Daniels, Mary, 210–211
• Davidson, Meir, 17–18, 223n15
• death penalty. See capital punishment
• Deborin, Haim, 211–212
• Dinari, A., 115, 127–128
• Dobkin, Eliyahu, 52–54, 61
• Dobrovodsky, Joseph, 91
• Doron, Jacob, 90, 92, 104–113
• Douglas, Lawrence, 222n17
• Dror youth movement, 77–78
• Dvorzhetski, Mark, 94, 123
• Dykman, Sela, 30

• Eckstein, Ze’ev, 165
• Ehrlich, Haim, 189–190, 202–203
• Eichmann, Adolf, 2, 73, 188; Arendt on, 182–184, 204, 218; Kastner and, 5, 155, 179–181; Pashititzky and, 98; Singer and, 121; trial of, 6, 132, 173–186, 180, 204, 213
• Eliashiv, Shmuel, 65
• Elkana, Yehudah, 217
• Eshel, Amir, 217–218
• Etzioni, Moshe, 102, 109
• evidence, rules of, 92, 103, 223n15, 250n36

• Felczer, Rozka, 28
• Fischel, Abraham, 203, 205–206
• Fogel, Alter, 249n13
• Freiman, Yitzhak, 103–106, 160–161
• Fried, Abraham, 83–84, 124–125
• Friedman, Mordechai, 83, 114
• Friedrich, Benjamin, 42
• Frieman, Yitzhak, 71–72, 90–91
• Fylenda, Ester, 28

• Gal, Yaakov, 69
• Gavison, Jacob, 115, 128, 187, 202–203
• genocide, 74, 140; Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law and, 85–86; UN convention on, 76, 140
• Gens, Jacob, 159
• Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz (Lohamei HaGeta’ot), 177
• Ghiladi, David, 94
• Goeth, Amon, 22
• Goldberg, Miriam, 81, 83, 84; charges against, 147, 238n55; sentence of, 114, 248n11
• Goldmuntz, Romek, 194
• Goldstein, Mordechai, 83–85, 249n12
• Göring, Hermann, 143
• Gorski, Joseph, 70
• Gottlieb, Hava, 116
• Gouri, Haim, 185–186
• Grauzam, Herman (Zvi Ben-Zeev), 256n1
• Greenberger, Hugo, 109
• Greenberger (Shachner), Tova-Judith, 108–109
• Gritzmacher, Itzik, 12, 34, 211
• Gritzmacher (Meskup), Lube, 12, 210–212
• Gross, Sarah, 119–120, 122
• Grossman, Lajos, 71, 105
• Gruenbaum, Eliezer, 13, 59–62
• Gruenbaum, Yitzhak, 59–62, 60
• Gruenwald, Malkiel, 154–158, 162
• Grünszpan, Mendel, 22–23
• Gur-Arie, Hemda, 252n68
• Gutelon, Jacob, 72
• Gutman, Yisrael, 153–154

• Haganah (paramilitary organization), 62, 79, 158
• Hagler, J., 126, 128
• Haifa Bureau of Investigations, 50–52, 56, 167
• Hake, I., 131–132, 136–137, 247n55
• Halevi, Benjamin (Kastner trial judge and Jerusalem District Court president), 125, 154, 158, 161–162, 165, 179–182
• Hameiri, Avigdor, 163–164
• Hanes, Raya, 114–115; acquittal of, 8, 122–123, 129; charges against, 92, 95; trial of, 93–95, 119–122
• Harif, Joseph, 176
• Harpazi, Michael, 202–203
• Hartglas, Apolinary, 58
• Ha-Shomer Ha-Tzair youth movement, 77–78
• Haskel, Amir, 231n3
• Hausner, Gideon, 6, 173–185, 188
• Hazan, Ya’akov, 50
• Hendler, Abraham, 83
• Herschteil, Moritz, 37
• Hershkopf, Leon, 262n1
• Herzog, Chaim, 216–217
• Herzog, Isaac Halevi, 167
• Heshbon hadash (New account) (drama), 152–154
• Hess, Rudolf, 143
• Hevrah Kadisha (burial society), 133–134
• Hilberg, Raul, 182–183
• Histadrut (labor union), 48, 52
• Hlinka Guard, 71, 72, 87, 91, 107–113
• Holocaust, 123–124, 158, 214–219; Arendt on, 182–184, 189, 204, 214, 218; Begin on, 214; Cohn on, 166; Gouri on, 185–186; Herzog on, 216–217; in history curriculum, 215–216; Netanyahu on, 216
• Holocaust Memorial Day, 215
• Holtzman, Yehuda, 130, 133–134, 245n33
• Honigman, David, 46–47
• Honigman, Hella, 46–47
• Honigman, Jacob, 8, 82, 129–139, 209, 245n26
• honor courts, 10–11, 19–25, 20, 45–46, 138, 224n24; on crimes against the Jewish people, 233n35; Dobkin on, 54; Siegel case in, 34–40, 64–66, 149, 150, 224n24
• Horowitz, Mordechai, 56
• Horwitz, Avinoam, 17
• Höss, Rudolf, 116
• Hutschnecker, Menashe, 55–58
• Hyman, Abraham, 19–20

• Idelsohn (Bar-Yehuda), Israel, 77–80
• International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, 30, 89–90, 137, 143
• Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL), 64, 145, 158
• Itzhak, Zeshuta, 35
• Itzkovitch, Hillel, 83–84

• Jabotinsky, Eri, 75
• Jarblum, Marc, 61
• Jewish Agency, 50–53, 158, 259n59; Rescue Committee of, 55–59, 62
• Jewish Brigade, 16–18
• Jewish Councils (Judenräte), 6, 21, 32, 39; Alterman on, 162–164; Arendt on, 183–184, 189, 204, 214, 218; Barenblat and, 25–28, 30–32, 188–192, 195–196, 204; Ben-Gurion on, 78–79; Berman on, 146; Halevi on, 182; Klinger on, 47; in Kolomyya, 56; Kovner on, 164; Lubetkin on, 49; Molchadsky and, 42; Rosenblum on, 199–200; Rosen on, 208; Tamir on, 159; Warhaftig on, 78; Yad Vashem conference on, 262n4
• Jewish National Council, 52–53, 61
• Jewish National Fund, 41–42, 48, 55
• Jockusch, Laura, 225n27
• Judenältester (Jewish elder), 36, 43, 149
• Jungster, Yehezkel, 1, 7–8, 69, 82, 131; death sentence of, 4, 141–142, 146–148; imprisonment of, 148; trial of, 85, 130–142, 245n26

• Kapo (film), 234n7
• kapos, 1–11, 166–172; Barnea on, 186; children of, 229n38; Cohn on, 159–160; definition of, 246n42; dramas about, 152–154, 250n38; Gutman on, 153–154; post-traumatic stress and, 108; Tamir on, 159; Velenstein on, 213; Vorarbeiter versus, 134, 138; Zuckerman on, 179. See also collaborators
• kapos in the camps: at Auschwitz, 114–123; murder by, 131–134
• kapo trials: preliminary examinations of, 81–93; public reactions to trials of, 145, 151–154, 162–172, 184, 247n55; witness testimony against, 89–90, 132–133
• Kastner, Rudolf (Rezso), 2, 49, 229n53; Arendt on, 182; death of, 164; Eichmann and, 5, 155, 179–181; as Rescue Committee leader, 155–156, 158–159; trial of, 5, 11, 103, 154–166, 251n49
• Kempinski, Genia, 83
• Kenneth (Kanterovitch), Max, 46–47, 114–115, 123; on Pashititzky, 128; on Siegel, 149–151
• Keren Hayesod, 55
• Kesse, Yona, 74–75
• Kishinev pogrom, 216
• Kleider, Mendel, 223n6
• Klein, David, 65
• Klein, Willey, 72
• Kleinman, David, 28
• Klinger, Hayka, 33, 47–48, 50, 193–194
• Klinov, Z., 151–152
• Klivnov, Jacob, 78
• Koren, Shami, 63
• Kot, Stanislaw, 52
• Kovner, Abba, 164, 223n12
• Kozeleuk, Jacob, 231n3
• Krausz, Moshe, 229n53
• Krumey, Hermann, 155
• Kwart, Shmuel, 209, 211–212
• Kwelman, Modechai, 63

• Lam, Joseph, 79–80, 139–141, 248n71
• Landau, Eliezer, 167–168
• Landau, Moshe, 6, 179, 207, 208, 248n71, 255n17
• Landsmanschaften (expatriate organizations), 3, 42–43, 55–56
• Langer, Lawrence, 222n11
• Lastovcy, Asher (formerly, Arpad Schachner), 109–112
• Laufer, Mordechai, 63
• Lebao, Jack, 51
• Lehrer, Abraham, 131–132
• Leizerovich, Idit, 94
• Lender, Chana, 23
• Levi, Primo, 9–10, 218–219, 222n12, 222n14
• Levi, Yitzhak, 64–65
• Levin, Yisrael, 139–141
• Levkovitch, David, 130
• Libai, David, 6, 188, 190–195, 198–199, 203, 257n13
• Libratovsky, Yisrael, 17, 223n15
• Lieber, David, 65
• Liebson, Eliezer, 94
• Lindenbaum, Joseph, 127
• Lindenbaum, Moshe, 97–100
• Lindner, Heinrich, 37
• Liron (Londoner), Zeev, 195–197
• Liver, Aryeh, 189–190
• Locker, Berl, 60
• Lubetkin, Zivia, 48–50, 53, 177–179, 255n12
• Lustig, Truda, 95–96
• Lustig, Yerachmiel (Yaron), 68, 70
• Luxemburg, Rachel, 46–47

• Maguri, Joseph, 238n55
• Mandatory Palestine, 3, 10, 155, 158
• Mandel, Julia, 71
• Markowitz, Eirene, 117
• Matalon, Emanuel, 82
• Matalon, Haim, 124–125
• Max, Blinder, 67–68
• Meged, Mati, 164
• Meirovitch, Miriam, 119
• Mengele, Joseph, 64, 100
• Menkes, Yosef, 165
• Meridor, Eliyahu, 243n81
• Merin, Moniek (Moses), 192, 195, 196
• Meskup (Gritzmacher), Lube, 12, 210–212
• Molchadsky, Haim, 41–43, 48, 62, 190, 192, 195
• Moshenberg, Abba, 130, 131, 133, 245n33
• Mossinsohn, Yigal, 250n38

• Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law (1950), 3–4, 10, 67–80, 93–95, 203–204; Bader on, 213; Banik trial under, 86–93; Ben-Zeev on, 209; Cohn on, 205, 209, 213–214, 251n57; death penalty under, 140–141, 147–148; double jeopardy and, 256n4; genocide law and, 85–86; Landau on, 208; Rosen on, 208
• Necas, F., 113
• Netanyahu, Benjamin, 216
• Neufeld, Jacob, 133
• Nir (Rafalkes), Nahum, 74
• Nugelman (Ugnik), Rivka, 81, 126
• Nuremberg trials, 30, 89–90, 137, 143
• Nurock, Mordechai, 75–76
• Nusblatt, Tsvi, 85, 97, 234n2

• Olshan, Yitzhak, 82; on Barenblat trial, 205, 207–208; on Kastner trial, 154
• Order Service (Ordnungsdienst), 15, 29, 32–34

• Paal, Joseph, 67–68, 114, 125, 209, 243n81
• Pashititzky, Pinchas, 8, 81, 97–101, 98, 126–129, 261n75
• Perez, Moshe, 90, 92
• Pilpel, Itamar, 168–169
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 108
• Praport, Aryeh, 168–172
• Puczyc, Moshe, 82, 244n12
• Punk, Sonia, 210

• Rabinowitz, Nathan, 71, 106–107
• Rafael (Ruffer), Gideon, 50–52, 54
• Raveh, Yitzhak, 147–148, 179, 211–212, 255n17
• reparations, 102, 144–146
• Rescue Committee of Jewish Agency (RCJA), 55–59, 62
• Ronen, Avihu, 260n66
• Rosen, Pinchas, 68, 75, 80, 156, 208, 213
• Rosenberg, Alfred, 143
• Rosenblum, Aryeh, 189, 191, 199–200
• Rosenblum, Herzl, 148
• Rosenwald, Elimelech, 255n17
• Rosenzweig, Jacob, 14
• Roth, Tsvi, 71
• Rube, Wilhelm, 98
• Rubin, Haim, 75
• Ruffer, (Rafael), Gideon, 50–52, 54
• Rufizen, Joseph, 65
• Rutelon, Jacob, 72

• Salomon, Ram, 70
• Schacht, Hjalmar, 143–144
• Schlimmer, Tsvi, 135–136, 241n54
• Schmelt organization, 129
• Scholem, Gershom, 184, 214
• Schwartz, Leon, 225n27
• Schweitzer, Jacob, 133, 245n33
• Shachner (Greenberger), Tova-Judith, 108–109
• Shaham, Nathan, 152–153
• Shaminski, Josef, 179
• Shamir, Mina, 95, 96, 98
• Shamir, Yitzhak, 215
• Shapshevsky, Herschel, 81
• Shapshevsky, Tsvi, 83
• Sharett (Shartok), Moshe, 54, 65–66, 102
• Sharfman, Uri, 223n16
• Shefer, Rafael, 56, 58
• Shin Bet (internal security service), 82, 165, 234n8, 261n75
• Shitrit, Bechor-Shalom, 71
• Shkedi, Eliezer, 217–218
• Siegel, Julius, 7, 8, 34–40, 66, 213; honor court proceedings against, 64–66, 149, 150, 224n24; trial of, 149–151, 250n36
• Singer, Elisheva, 121
• Singer, Josef, 82, 234n2
• Sofer, Shlomo, 81–82
• Spanish Civil War, 62
• Springer, Herschel, 192
• Stern, Aryeh, 40
• Sternberg, Joshua, 100, 127, 129
• Szancer (Barenblat), Maria (Kasia), 28–29, 29, 32–33, 196–198

• Tamir, Shmuel, 157–158, 252n61
• Taylor, Telford, 90
• Tesler, Miriam, 119
• Tikochinsky, Abraham, 249n13
• Tobbin, Dov, 102
• Tovim, A., 88
• Trenk, Elsa, 8, 136; charges against, 85–86, 92; sentence of, 118–119; trial of, 93, 95–96, 114–118, 123
• Trunk, Isaiah, 227n19, 262n4
• Tubianski, Meir, 82–83
• Tugdman, Esther, 99

• United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 76, 140
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 21–22
• Urbach, Nathan, 13

• Valenstein, Shulamit, 213
• Vilenska, Esther, 252n65
• Vinizky, Josef, 144
• Vishlitzky, Shmuel, 42–43
• Vorarbeiter (foreman), 85, 129, 135; kapo versus, 134, 138
• Vorosa, Paul, 104

• Wacksman, Isaac, 28, 30
• Waldman, Tsvi: on Hanes case, 94, 96; on Pashititzky case, 98–101
• war crimes, 69, 76, 93, 139, 147; capital punishment for, 4, 141–142, 147–148; crimes against humanity versus, 139–140; definitions of, 96, 118, 242n56
• Warhaftig, Zerach, 76, 78
• War of Independence (1948), 62
• Warsaw ghetto uprising, 48–50, 146, 177
• Waxberg, Haim, 190
• Weichert, Michal, 23–25
• Weitz, Yechiam, 251n49
• Weizmann, Chaim, 60
• Wekselman, Reuven, 206–207
• Wilkenfeld, Haim, 76–77
• World Zionist Congress honor court, 3, 53–54, 149
• Wosner, Berta, 95–96

• Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, 153, 214
• Yanovsky, Yerachmiel, 67–68
• Yavlonsky, Moshe, 168–172
• Yom Kippur War (1973), 214

• Zeltner, Zeev, 121–123
• Zionism, 16, 43–44, 47–48; Bialik on, 216; collaborators and, 48; Gruenbaum on, 59; Tamir on, 159
• Ziskovich, Meir, 129, 130, 132, 135–136, 245n33
• Zlotowski, Simcha, 27–28, 32
• Zuckerberg, Shimon, 83, 255n17
• Zuckerman, Antek (Yitzhak), 15, 53, 171–172, 177–179, 178, 229n53