American Orthodox Jews have been attacked for not caring about non-observant Jews in Europe during and after WWII. They have also been charged with not working with the JDC, which diffused rescue and relief efforts. Many believe this to be true. In his new groundbreaking study, Battling for Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe, Dr. Alex Grobman debunks this very harmful and divisive myth.
The US Army and the Talmud and Kosher Food and the Vaad Hatzala are chapters from Dr. Grobman's new book and can be read below. They are posted here with his permission, as is his article on "The Frankfort Jewish GI Council"
Below are some other articles on how the Vaad Hatzala and other aspects of the Shoah.
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Other Articles
(The views expressed in the articles do not necessarily reflect the views of Tzemach Dovid)
Other articles by Dr. Alex Grobman on the Internet
From The Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Dr. Grobman's book, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It? is available on amazon.com
Dr. Alex Grobman is an historian with an MA and Ph.D. in contemporary Jewish history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is president of the Institute for Contemporary Jewish Life, a think tank dealing with historical and contemporary issues affecting the Jewish community, and a consultant to the Brenn Institute.
Dr. Grobman established the first Holocaust center in the U.S. under the auspices of a Jewish Federation in St. Louis, Missouri and served as its first director. He also served as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angles where he was the founding editor-in chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Annual, the first serial publication in the United States focusing on the scholarly study of the Holocaust. Dr. Grobman edited Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, a companion to the Center's Academy Award winning film Genocide.
Dr. Grobman is the author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948, and editor of In Defense of the Survivors: The Letters and Documents of Oscar A. Mintzer AJDC Legal Advisor, Germany, 1945-46. His latest book Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It? was published in hardcover by the University of California Press in Berkeley in spring 2000 and in paperback in May 2002. He has also edited three academic books: Anne Frank in Historical Perspective, Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued, and Schindler's List.