Honor Courts
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| Described At | Honor Courts | yivo |
| Has Abstract | After World War II, Holocaust survivors found consolation in the claim that Jews had heroically resisted the Nazis on a large scale, and that even if not every Jew had engaged the enemy in armed combat, all Jews had exhibited high moral standards. Survivors from Eastern Europe demonstrated their solidarity and identification with the myth of Jewish valor by censuring the questionable conduct of a small fraction of Jews suspected of collaboration with the Nazi regime. During the war, the Jewish underground in Eastern Europe had assassinated several Judenrat functionaries, ghetto policemen, and informers, while concentration camp inmates had occasionally killed brutal former kapos stripped by the Germans of their authority. After liberation there were survivors who wanted to settle scores with Jewish collaborators still alive. This wish for revenge led to prosecutions of putative collaborators in Jewish honor courts, administrative tribunals mandated by local Jewish communities to investigate individuals whose behavior under Nazi occupation was called into question, and to condemn and sanction those whose actions were deemed reproachable. | yivo |
| is Represents of | 1398799 | ep |
| Title | Honor Courts | yivo |
| is Owl Same As of | 1398799 | ep |
| Core Alt Label | honor courts | yivo |
| Core Pref Label | Honor Courts | yivo |
| Core Related 12 |
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| is Core Related of | Ghetto Police | yivo |
