In the Warsaw ghetto, even
during the period of the first massive extermination (June to October 1943),
one saw almost no German soldiers. Nearly all the work of administration,
and later the work of transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their
deaths, was carried out by Jewish collaborators. Before the outbreak of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (the planning of which only started after the
extermination of the majority of Jews in Warsaw), the Jewish underground
killed, with perfect justification, every Jewish collaborator they could
find. If they had not done so the Uprising could never have started. The
majority of the population of the Ghetto hated the collaborators far more
than the German Nazis. Every Jewish child was taught, and this saved the
lives of some of them "if you enter a square from which there are three
exits, one guarded by a German SS man, one by an Ukrainian and one by a
Jewish policeman, then you should first try to pass the German, and then
maybe the Ukrainian, but never the Jew".
One of my own strongest memories is that, when the Jewish
underground killed a despicable collaborator close to my home at the end of
February 1943, I danced and sang around the still bleeding corpse together
with the other children. I still do not regret this, quite the contrary.
It is clear that such events were not exclusive to the Jews, the
entire Nazi success in easy and continued rule over millions of people
stemmed from the subtle and diabolical use of collaborators, who did most of
the dirty work for them. But does anybody now know about this? This, and
not what is "instilled" was the reality. Of the Yad Vashem (official state
Holocaust museum in Jerusalem - Ed.) theatre, I do not wish to speak at all.
It, and its vile exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators
with the Nazis are truly beneath contempt.
Therefore, if we knew a little of the truth about the Holocaust,
we would at least understand (with or without agreeing) why the Palestinians
are now eliminating their collaborators. That is the only means they have
if they wish to continue to struggle against our limb-breaking regime.