“The barbed wire which fenced us in did not cause us any real fear. We even thought ourselves rather well off; we were entirely self-contained. A little Jewish republic…We appointed a Jewish Council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department – a whole government machinery.”
It is very wise of them to try to get their mind off of all the horror going on and do something productive and try to start a little government among the Jews. Maybe it wasn’t to get their minds off of the genocide but to maybe make their man power into good use.
In my opinion I think this is kind of far fetched. As they all know people are being murdered left and right, cracking under pressure. To appoint a leader would almost be foolish, not knowing if the Nazis would decide to pick that Jew to be put in the next batch. Unless they were way more detailed with their government then we have today. If they had a chain of command leading down to the very last person then I would have giving it a little more success possibility in my mind.
