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The
war has confronted Jewish public circles with very important
problems. The political relationships that existed before the
war had to cease. A united Jewish front had to be created from
Left to Right. The Hitlerist fight against the Jewish
population took on the character of an extermination. It was
directed against all strata and all classes of the Jewish
population as a whole. As far as the Hitlerites were concerned
there was no difference between the Zionists and members of
the Bund they hated both equally. They wanted to destroy both.
A policy for struggle appropriate to this situation had to be
developed by the Jewish population. A united national front
had to be created to face the German Fascist powers of
destruction. The Jews were confronted by such cardinal
questions of life and death that no [section] could take the
responsibility for deciding such crucial questions alone. It
required united strength to find the answers to the problems
which the situation continuously brought up. The institution
of Party consultations of all political directions had no
name, but it was a permanent body, and its views were
consulted by the Joint, the Jewish Social Self-Help
organization and by the Community itself more than once....
Ringelblum,
II, p. 109. |
