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Holocaust: A History

Holocaust: A History


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Drawing on oral histories recorded by the authors over 15 years across Europe and the United States, as well as on documents, letters and diaries never before analyzed, this volume aims to change the way we look at the greatest crime in history. This study vividly shows us the early days of Nazism and the German leaders' plans for resettlement of the Jews in Madagascar or the rural marshes of Poland. It illustrates how new measures and abuses, each harsher than the last, were devised and implemented - even after it was clear that Germany had lost the war - until liberation was finally reached in 1945. Though this book captures the horror, it never allows the personal stories to be subsumed in numbing detail. We meet perpetrators and collaborators, victims, bystanders and witnesses, rescuers and resisters. What emerges in a multi-faceted treatment of moral dilemmas as well as facts, one which negotiates the chasm between two histories, that of the people who carried out these terrible deeds and that of the victims and their families. It helps us to understand how it was possible for between five and six million human beings, in the heart of a civilization that thought itself the zenith of human history, to find themselves singled out, disenfranchised, marked, imprisoned and killed.

About the Author :
Deborah Dwork is Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Robert Jan van Pelt is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Waterloo. Their book 'Auschwitz' won the National Jewish Book Award in the USA. The Guardian called it 'a vividly written and remarkably illustrated account of the deliberate creation of hell on earth'.

Review :
A rare achievement . . . a landmark in the study of the terrible event that has defined the times in which we live - Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto Breathtaking in scope . . . sensitive to human detail . . . a work of scholarship, drama and compassion - Marion Kaplan A scholarly miracle . . . hard-hitting and fresh in its documentation, illustrations and vivid quotes - Irving Greenberg, Jewish Life Network Superb - Michael Berenbaum, Forward A monumental, sobering attempt to make sense of collective insanity - Kirkus Review Filled with fascinating details that challenge our preconceptions - Publishers Weekly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780719554865
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 333 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0719554861
  • Publisher Date: 18 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 196 mm
  • Sub Title: A History
  • Width: 129 mm


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