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The Seventh Million Key Idea #1: With the rise of the Nazis, German Jews were “transferred” to Palestine – yet their arrival was fraught with tension.
Nineteen thirty-three was a turning point in history: the year the Nazis came to power in Germany. The rise of the Nazi state quickly signaled to Zionists, the community of Jews desiring to create a Jewish state in Palestine, that the Jews of Germany were in danger.
Back then, however, the interests of the Nazis and the Zionists complemented one another. That’s because the Nazis wanted the Jews to leave Germany and the Zionists wanted them to live in Palestine.
As a result, “transfer” agreements, also known as Haavara, were made between the Nazis and the Zionist Jewish Agency in Palestine. Here’s what happened:
In the 1930s, the Jewish Agency acted as a government for the future Jewish state, with Zionist officials traveling to Berlin to negotiate the emigration of German Jews and the transfer of their property to Palestine.
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The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
1. If Ben Gurion could realistically save only a limited number of Jews from the Holocaust, should he have simply saved whoever he could or tried to select those who would most benefit the struggling community in Palestine?
2. Given the realistic limitations on the Palestine yishuv in terms of saving Jews during the Holocaust, are they to blame for putting their local concerns first and responding with apparent passivity/indifference to the plight of European Jewry?
3. Does Israel's accepting war reparations funding from Germany imply that the losses of the Holocaust can be compensated? Does this absolve Germany of their responsibility? What should take precedence -- the practical benefits of accepting reparations, or the moral high ground?
4. Was Rudolph Kastner a hero for successfully negotiating with Eichmann to save a number of Hungarian Jews, or was he a villain for
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Tom Segev
Israeli historian (born 1945)
Tom Segev (Hebrew: תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.
Biography
[edit]Segev was born in Jerusalem. His parents, Ricarda (née Meltzer) and Heinz Schwerin were artists who had met at the Bauhaus art school and fled Nazi Germany in 1935 due to their Communist orientation (Heinz was also Jewish). His mother was a photographer; his father, an architect and toy manufacturer, was killed on guard duty in Jerusalem in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Segev's first language was German; his mother never learned Hebrew beyond a basic level. He earned a BA in history and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in history from Boston University in the 1970s.[1][2] His sister is the German politician Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin.
Journalism career
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