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War-Torn Europe
Book chapter

War-Torn Europe

Arthur B. Shostak
Stealth Altruism, pp 43-56
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114460-6

Abstract

East European Jewry Forbidden Care Hashomer Hatzair Stealth Altruism British Mandate Palestine Kovno Ghetto War’s Start Tom Lantos Lodz Ghetto Polish Jews Ruth Kluger Warsaw Ghetto Ghetto Dwellers Vilna Ghetto Slave Labor Camps Ghetto Carers Nauseating Smell SS Guard Deep Hiding Effective Altruism anti-Zionist Group Yom HaShoah Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp Mass Abduction Minsk Ghetto
On September 1, 1939, the German invasion of Poland began a ruthless process that over the next six years brought about half of all of the world's Jews, then about seventeen million, under harsh and murderous rule. By the end of 1942 Nazi occupation troops ruled all of Eastern Europe, and Polish Jews were joined in anguish and pain by millions of coreligionists. Two months after the 1939 invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis forced Polish Jews into ghettos, the first ever imposed in Eastern Europe. In the Warsaw Ghetto which had about 450,000 people at its peak, a Judenrat Food Committee developed community soup kitchens. Between the war's start in 1939 and the transport in 1942 of ghetto Jews to the camps, European Jewry experienced unprecedented Horror Story excesses, and yet also Help Story stealth altruism.

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