A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

by Tuvia Friling

Book Overview

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the Jewish Agency's Rescue Committee during the Holocaust and Israel's first minister of the interior. In light of the father's high placement in both Polish and Israeli politics, the denunciation of the younger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611685761
• ISBN13: 9781611685763
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"