Arrows in the dark : David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv leadership, and rescue attempts during the Holocaust / Tuvia Friling ; translated by Ora Cummings.
Arrows in the Dark recounts and analyzes the many efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine--the Yishuv--to provide assistance to European Jews facing annihilation by the Nazis. Tuvia Friling provides a detailed account of the activities carried out at the behest of David B...
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| Other title: | Ḥets ba-ʻarafel. English. |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Confronting the information. Phases of acknowledging : information, consciousness, mental and emotional processing
- Protest : political tool or substitute for action?
- Lightning rod : establishing the Rescue Committee
- pt. II. Rescue plans. "Or we shall have no repentance" : plans to rescue children
- Dealing with the devil : the 1942 and 1943 ransom plans
- Between the hammer and the anvil in 1944 : continuing efforts to rescue children and the struggle for immigration to Palestine
- The secret partnership
- "A one-in-a-million chance" : attempts to rescue Hungarian Jewry and negotiations toward the end of the war
- Bombing to deter and stultify
- pt. III. Financing of rescue attempts and assistance. At the edge of the abyss : financial maneuvers by Ben-Gurion and Kaplan, 1942-1943
- Financing aid and rescue activity in liberated Europe
- The Jewish Agency budget and fund-raising appeals in Palestine
- Fund-raising campaigns abroad
- Money transfers
- Funding aid and rescue operations : a summary.