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JOHN SACK






AN
EYE
FOR AN
EYE


The Story of Jews Who Sought Revenge For the
Holocaust







Revised, Updated and Illustrated







First published : 1993


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ISBN 0o-9675691-0-9

Fourth Edition
Some of this book first appeared, in much different form, in California and The Village Voice.

First edition, 1993, published by BasicBooks, a division of HarperCollins.
Second edition, 1995, (additional preface) published by BasicBooks.
Third edition, 1997, (electronic : revised and updated) published by CompuServe. This edition do not
seem to be online.
Fourth edition (revised, updated, illustrated The present edition), 2000, published by John Sack. In
other words, no publishing company was willing to publish this book. Since the authors death in
2004, it seems the book has not been available for sale, anymore.

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OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN SACK


The Butcher
From Here to Shimbashi
Report from Practically Nowhere
M
Lieutenant Calley
The Man-Eating Machine
Fingerprint
Company C











for all who died
and for all who because of this story
might live



















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Contents
An Eyefor an Eye 1-143

Update:
The Flight of Shlomo Morel 159

Update:
The Book An Eye for an Eye 173

Notes.179

Sources 239

Acknowlegments 257

Query 261

Index 263

[ix]


Preface

M
y mother's mother was from Cracow, thirty miles from Auschwitz, and I must assume that if
she (and my other grandparents) hadn't left in the i890s and sailed to America, that Id have been sent
to Auschwitz in the 1940s. I'd have been about twelve years old. Like other boys then, Id have been
wearing a drab gray suit and a flat gray "golfer" cap, and I'd have stepped from the train with my
mother, father, and freckle-cheeked sister nine years old, and onto the concrete platform inside of the
Auschwitz wires. As it happened, I didn't go to Auschwitz until ten years ago, when I was almost sixty
and it was safe to do so. I stood on the wide concrete platform and stared at the tracks where the train
would have been, but I couldnt picture myself getting off it. I tried, but the "when, where and what of
Auschwitz were so remote from my own remembered world that I felt I was trying to see myself as I or
my atoms were just before the Big Bang.

I'd read about Auschwitz, and I knew that Mengele would have been on this platform that day,
and I went to where he'd have stood. I knew he'd have told my mother and father, "Go right," and my
sister and me, "Go left, but I still couldn't picture it. I went to the ruins of the dressing roomthe
undressing roomthen of the cyanide chamber, which now had no roof and was full of old roof-
components, of dirt, grass and dandelions, and (as I looked closely) of tiny white chips of bone that, in
the 1940s, had fallen there from the sky. Again, I tried to picture my sister and me in this cyanide
chamber, undressed, our two bodies touching and one thousand people around us, all screaming, the
gas coming down upon us, and I simply couldn't see it, my mind had no hook that could hold it, I
might as well have been groping for "Why does the universe exist? What if it didnt?" I left without
taking notes, but I remember that I felt some sympathy for the men and women who say that the
Holocaust didnt happen. The people who say it are fools, maybe worse, but I can commiserate with
them. The thought the Holocaust did, indeed, happen is too enormous for one little volleball
[x] brain.

I'd come to Auschwitz and this part of Poland to research this book. I had heard of a Jewish girl,
Lola, who, after onc-and-one-half years at Auschwitz, had turned the Holocaust upside-down by
becoming the commandant of the big prison for Germans at Gleiwitz, thirty miles away, and in some
ways by imitating the SS women at Auschwitz, and I wanted to write about her. Lola wasnt in Poland
anymore, but as I spoke to Jews, Poles and Germans about her and as I studied documents in a
cobwebbed cellar in Poland and a concrete castle over the Rhine, I slowly became aware that the truth
was much, much larger than Lola. I learned that hundreds of Jews and probably thousands of Jews John Sack : An Eye for An Eye
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who'd been on the platform at Auschwitz (or the numerous places like it) in the early 1940s could
picture things that I couldn't and, in fact, could do things that in the 1930s they couldnt even have
pictured. When the Holocaust ended, I learned, a lot of Jews became commandants like Lola. I
understood why, but the Jews were sometimes as cruel as their exemplars at Auschwitz, and they even
ran the organization that ran the prisons andas I learnedthe concentration camps for German
civilians in Poland and Poland-administered Germany. Once again, I felt that I was confronting
something too big for one little three-pound brain, for I was learning that, yes, the Holocaust
happened, the Germans killed Jews, but that a second atrocity happened that the Jews who committed
it covered up: one where the Jews killed Germans. God knows the Jews were provoked, but I learned
that in 1945 they killed a great number of Germans: not Nazis, not Hider's trigger men, but German
civilians, German men, women, children, babies, whose "crime" was just to be Germans. Through the
wrath of Jews, however understandable, the Germans lost more civilians than at Dresden, more than,
or just as many as, the Japanese at Hiroshima, the Americans at Pearl Harbor, the British in the Battle
of Britain, or the Jews themselves in Poland's occasional pogroms: so I now learned, and I was aghast
to learn it. This was no Holocaust of the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, but I knew that if I
reported it, Id be exhibiting, well, call it chutzpah, for I could guess what the world would say, but I
felt Id be doing the righteous thing both as a reporter and as a man who's a Jew.

I'm not a Biblical scholar, but I went to Saturday school (I was voted the most religious") and I
knew that the Torah tells us to bear honest witness, tells us, indeed, that if someone sins and we know
it and dont report it, then we're guilty too. The men (and the woman, a scholar says) who wrote the
Torah didnt cover up Jewish misdeeds. Even when Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, sinned
-God told him to go to Israel, but he went to Egypt insteadthe Torah reported it. It reported that
Judah, whose name is the source of "Jew," made love to a harlot, and it reported that Moses, even
Moses, trespassed against the Lord, who then didn't let him into the Promised

[xi] Land. The people who wrote the Torah (or according to Orthodox Jews, the God who wrote it)
believed that we Jews couldnt proclaim, "Thou shalt not cover," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not
kill," if we ourselves did it and covered it up, and I, as a Jew doing research in Europe, felt that I must
report what the Jewish commandants did if Jews were to keep any moral authority. I suspected that
some Jews would ask me, "How could a Jew write this book?" and I knew that my answer must be "No,
how could a Jew not write it?"

When I came back from Europe, and when I started writing, I still chose to concentrate on the
intimate story of Lola and Lolas circle. To write a whole formal history such as the Germans wrote,
from the German viewpoint, omitting all mention of Jews, in a three-volume work in the 196os, would
demand a battalion of historians who, even then, probably wouldnt turn up the truth of a secret
organization from 1945. For myself, I didnt want to write something like "The Jews did this," "The
Jews did that," "Well, werent the Jews just awful," just as I hadn't written like that in my three books
about the American soldiers in Vietnam and as I hope I wouldn't write if I ever wrote about the
German SS. I decided that in An Eye for an Eye, I woulddt report that a Jew had beaten a German,
tortured a German, or killed a German until the reader could understand why