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25.04.06, 19:01
Poprostu dali noge , zostawiajac spoleczenstwo na laske nazistow ,...
ukloy
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When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, the entire Jewish communal
leadership fled eastward ,...
Betar, the largest youth movement in Poland with 700 branches and 70,000
members, did not send anyone back. Betar's leader was Menachem Begin. The
heads of the World Betar movement in London criticized his departure from
Warsaw, using the analogy of a captain being the first to leave his sinking
ship, as Begin would reveal with evident discomfort in a letter to an
associate. He had chosen to flee, he indicated, because as a well-known
personality he faced almost certain arrest and would then have been of no use
to the movement. If his associates felt otherwise, he wrote, "I will draw the
extreme conclusion - that is, I will return to Warsaw."
Begin did not return and neither did the Polish Betar leadership, assembled
in Vilna, send anyone else ,...
Abraham Rabinovitz