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Slutsk, Baranovitsh etc. In the second, there are altogether 1,500
German and Czech Jews.”
This information is not devoid of interest either. It confirms the deportation
of German and Czech Jews to the occupied Soviet territories
(a fact not contested by official historiography) and proves that these
Jews were by no means exterminated.
Ironically Kruk’s diary was enthusiastically lauded by two renowned
Jewish mainstream Holocaust historians. For Yehuda Bauer it is “a
unique and extremely valuable diary,” 1097 and Saul Friedländer
states: 1097
“Hermann Kruk’s diary is one of the major sources that we have
about the life and death of the Jews of Wilna during the Holocaust.”
Either the two illustrious historians have never read the book they
praised so warmly, or they simply did not foresee that Kruk’s diary,
which deals a devastating blow to the official version of the events,
would ever be read by critical observers.
On the other hand, there can be no doubt whatsoever that an even
more famous Jewish Holocaust historian, Yitzhak Arad (who incidentally
was a partisan in the Vilnius area in spring 1943), 1098 has indeed
read Kruk’s diary. In his 1980 book Ghetto in flames Arad quotes the
Yiddish original Hurbn Vilne twice as a sources. 1099 As the passages
about the presence of Dutch Jews in Lithuania cannot possibly have escaped
Arad’s attention, he must have known the real destination of
these Jews by 1980 at the latest – which did not prevent this august
scholar from rehashing the gas chamber lie in his “standard work” about
Beec, Sobibór, and Treblinka published in 1987. 49
10.5. The Fate of Western Jews – a Hypothesis
Whereas Polish Jews present on Soviet territory could easily blend
in after the war, the situation was entirely different for Jews from Western
Europe who found themselves on Soviet territory after war’s end.
The presence of a large number of Jews from countries like Holland,
France, or Greece would necessarily be highly noticeable and could not
1097 H. Kruk, op. cit. (note 1089), back cover.
1098 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Arad
1099 Y. Arad, Ghetto in flames. The struggle and destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust,
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1980, fn. 25 and 26, p. 369.