Bitter reckoning : Israel tries Holocaust survivors as Nazi collaborators /

In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a collaborator, the rider leapt off the bus, pursued by passengers intent on beating him to death. Five...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Porat, Dan, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists. World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > Public opinion. War crime trials > Israel > 20th century. Kapos > Europe > History. Israelis > Attitudes. Concentration camp inmates as guards > Europe > History > 20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps.

Table of Contents:

From revenge to retribution in post-Nazi Europe
Tensions among survivors in mandatory Palestine
The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law
Preliminary court examinations
Weighing the actions of Jewish collaborators
Can a Jewish kapo commit a crime against humanity?
The first doubts about the kapo trials
Judging a Nazi and reframing collaboration
Absolving ordinary functionaries.