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Welcoming Assistants: Changing Perspectives Of Jewish Workers In The Holocaust, Noah Price
Welcoming Assistants: Changing Perspectives Of Jewish Workers In The Holocaust, Noah Price
Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal
This article examines how the Jewish community redeveloped its perspective towards Jews that assisted the Nazis in the Holocaust. These ‘assistants’ include those the Nazis either forced or coerced into helping complete their genocide. It argues that in the time since the Holocaust, survivors moved from a negative opinion of these Jewish workers to understanding their situation and allowing the recording of their survival stories along with other victims of the Holocaust. In examining contemporary works such as diaries or journals and the memoirs survivors published years later, these changed emotions reveal themselves as the victims began to write about …