Historical Background and Interviews
I. Ludvipol: A Modem Shtetl Ludvipol: A Modern Shtetl
After a particularly disastrous series of fires set by Ukrainian thugs, a group of young Jews set up security patrols. Then they decided to fight fire with fire. “Our houses were wood and so were theirs, but their roofs were straw, which is very easy to burn up,” said Katz. “The young men burned an entire Ukrainian village down, and after that there were no more fires, although there were still some drunken brawls.” A wave of Jewish flight ensued, especially to Palestine, Argenti - na, and Canada. The Polish government obligingly printed special exit visas for Jews willing to leave Poland to the Polish.
1. Shmuel Spcctor, The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews, 1941-1944 2. Eva Hoffman, Shtetl: The Ufe and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, p. 175 3. Hoffman, Ibid., pp. 175-176 4. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewty, p. 187 5. Yahil, Ibid., p. 187 6. Hoffman, Ibid., p. 192 7. Hoffman, Ibid., pp. 195-196 Life Jewry,
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