The Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1939–1945 Part II - The Illusion Dashed – 1942–1945
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Summary
The Illusion Dashed – 1942–1945
With the credible and confirmed Job-like reports that we have now received from the vale of killing – the era of expectations and delusions has ended; the period of the kindness of ignorance is over, and the time for the easing of inner anguish by entertaining doubt – who knows, maybe a miracle has happened and the horror described and conjectured didn’t happen in full intensity? – has gone.
(Davar, “Devar ha-Yom,” March 10, 1944)As our children weep in the shadow of the gallows
we have not heard the world’s outrage
For You chose us from among all nations
You loved us and desired us.
For You chose us from among all nations,
From Norwegians, Czechs, British
And as our children march to the gallows,
Jewish children, wise children
They know that their blood is not valued
They call only to mother: don’t look.
Nathan Alterman, “From among all Nations,” Ha’aretz, November 27, 1942
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- The Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1939–1945Palestine, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, pp. 103 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011