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The author covers the reactions of the Orthodox Zionists (Mizrahi) to the Holocaust. She throws light on the debate that then occurred on the legitimacy of the uprising (and therefore of the use of violence), emphasizing at the same time the importance of religious resistance to the Genocide.Eschkoli demonstrates how this tragic debate within the Yishuv, far from dealing with abstractions, concerned the ideological worlds to which these women and men belonged. The increased awareness of the world’s indifference stimulated the political efforts of Zionism. Here, rather then in an hypothetical “compassion” of the Western world in the aftermath of World War II, one may find the link between the European tragedy and the restoration of the Jewish State.