RESEARCH ON THE JEWISH CATASTROPHE.

The article comments on a research on the Jewish Catastrophe. It has been said of the period of the Catastrophe that, for Jewish history, one year is the equivalent of a century in normal times. The usual course of any particular community is even and uneventful, ordinarily, little of historical significance takes place, except in those rare times when a peak of military, political, intellectual, and moral activity is reached. Thus, on a continental scale, each year brings a few people, a few ideas, a few groups, to the fore. But the era of the Nazi oppression was quite different. Then, in the span of only twelve years, every single Jewish community in Europe perforce was faced with the greatest crisis possible to a group the crisis of existence. Of the difficulties inherent in this study, the most evident are those that stem from the vastness of the subject. The Nazi plan against the Jews was global in intent, continental in implementation. The entire operation was an integrated whole, what took place in any part of Europe was related, directly or indirectly, with what took place in every other part. The geographical scope of the Catastrophe extends over most of Europe and even to North Africa.