Arrows in the Dark (Volumes 1 and 2): David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust

Acknowledgments

For the research presented herein, I should like to thank colleagues and friends. Special thanks to my mentor, Professor Yehuda Bauer. A distinguished combination of researcher and highly inspired teacher, Professor Bauer followed all stages of this research and provided invaluable comments regarding the manuscript. Professor Shlomo Aronson of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Yoav Gelber of Haifa University also read the manuscript and made valuable and important suggestions, for which I am extremely grateful. Professor Aronson placed at my disposal important documentation relating to the secret ties between the Yishuv and American secret service organizations ; his generosity has not been taken for granted. My research is largely based on archival material in Israel and abroad, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following directors and their staff: Yoram Miyorek and the staff at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem; Baruch Tor-Raz at the Labor Party Achives in Beit Berl; Dr. Irit Kenan and Neri Arieli at the Haganah Archives in Tel Aviv; and Dr. Eli Tsur and staff at the Heritage Archives in Giv’at Haviva. The archives at the Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sede Boqer Campus, were my primary source of documentation; I should like to thank Hana Pinshaw , director of the archives, and Leana Feldman for their invaluable assistance and friendship . Thanks, too, to Lily Adar, director of the library at the Ben-Gurion Center, and her team for their professional assistance. Much foreign documentation was supplied by the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington , D.C. Information was also derived from the presidential archives of Roosevelt, Eisenhower , and Truman, and from the Hoover Institute Archives. Other archives include the Bund Archive and those of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Zionist Archives in New York City, as well as the American Jewish Historical Society archives at Brandeis University. The British Public Record Office (P.R.O) at Kew were also an important source of documentation. I hereby express my thanks to the directors and staff of all these archives. In the course of my research, I was a guest of the Meyerhoff Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Hebrew at the University of Maryland , College Park, and the Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Yarnton, Oxford. I should like to thank Professor Bernie Cooperman of Washington, D.C., and Emeritus Professor David Patterson of Oxford for their hospitality and support. Also, I would like to thank the heads of the Friedan Foundation (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the Karni Foundation (Yad BenGurion , Tel Aviv) and the Max and Rita Heiber Foundation (The Herman Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for their support throughout this project. During the final stages of my research, I was helped by two excellent research assistants: Smadar Rothman and Milca Har-Tal, both of whom helped me wade through the sea of details that are part and parcel of this type of activity. Hadas Blum also worked painstakingly, with incredible devotion and skill, on the English version , and I thank her for her very important contribution . ThankstomyeditorfortheHebreweditionof thebook,AviBareli,inappreciationforfascinating Acknowledgments ix dialogueandwarmfriendshipthroughoutourcollaboration . Thanks to Mr. Henry Krawitz my editor at the University of Wisconsin Press for his enormous contribution to the English edition. Thanks also to my agent and translator, Ora Cummings , for her help in making this English version possible. To my wife, Dina; my daughter, Yonat; and my sons, Itai and Ealon. I am happy to express yet againmythanksfortheirloveandtheirfellowship. x Acknowledgments Arrows intheDark ...