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🧵Chajka Klinger was a member of Ha-Shomer ha-Za’ir & resistance leader against th Nazis. Her book A Diary frm th Ghetto was published posthumously (1959), heavily edited & censored due to Klingers criticism of th Zionist Zaglembian Judenrat & the Jewish leadership in Palestine
After being captured and tortured she fled to Palestine 1943.She gave talks throughout Palestine heavily criticising Zionist leadership as collaborators. On April 18, 1958, just before the fifteenth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Klinger committed suicide.
Excerpt from her speech to members of th Yishuv in th book by Dan Porat Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators
"One thing must be determined: The Various jewish communities (in Europe) were headed by members of the Zionist Movement, & most of them understood that if (the Nazis) said A, they would carry on and do B, And after they began assisting the Germans in collecting gold and furniture from Jewish homes they had no choice but to go on to help prepare lists of Jews for labor camps….
And precisely because those who stood at the head of most of the communities were Zionists, the psychological effect on the Jewish Masses vis a vis the Zionist idea was devastating, and the hatred toward Zionism grew day by day…One bright day we will need to try these people
We should not keep silent. it must be said clearly and publicly that many Zionists betrayed (their people)…Yes, one must judge Haim Molchadsky, the head of the Jewish National Fund in Bedzin and later the head of the community, and the same is true to many more”