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Title: Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt ISBN: 0-393-32524-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Holocaust: A History
Comment: Last January I began a comprhensive study of the holocaust. I was looking for a book that would provide me with an accurate overview and a good working framework to organize my study. This book provided me with all the tools I needed.It is well researched, well organized and well written.I cannot understand why anyone would call this excellent text boring or difficult to raad unless that person had little interest in the holocaust to begin with. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: boring
Comment: It is insanely difficult to read, not to mention excrutiatingly boring. It does not live up to it's title. It should have been called "More history than you ever wanted to know about Jews"
Rating: 5
Summary: The Inhuman Savagery of Man
Comment: The scholar seeking to write a comprehensive history of the Holocaust is confronted at the outset with two significant problems. Too broad a focus on the 'big picture' will tend to obscure the humanity of the individual victims who will come to seem abstract. Too narrow a focus on individual stories will, inevitably, diminish the shear scope of the horror which is really too great for the human mind to comprehend. The scholar must, therefore, try to reconcile both the larger picture and also to humanize the victims, to give them faces and names and backgrounds, to demonstrate their suffering. In this brilliant new book, which is destined to become the new standard one volume text on the Holocaust, the authors succeed brilliantly.
They begin by developing the broader picture, showing how racial anti-Semitism grew in Europe and how it metastasized in Germany under Hitler. The book then follows the horrible story chronologically as the Nazis systematically remove the Jews from all aspects of German society setting the stage for genocide with the outbreak of war. Not neglected is the role played by other European countries in supporting the annihilation of European Jewry. Repeated are the familiar stories of how Denmark rescued its Jewish citizens and how France cooperated with its Nazi overlords. Not well known, however, is the fact that Romania, actually carried out its own formal program of genocide, independent of Germany, the only European country to do so
The book is meticulously footnoted and quite scholarly but the writing is always lively and riveting. It is filled with quotes and anecdotes from a number of survivors and presents their stories in detail. All aspects of the Holocaust are covered, including resistance movements, and the actions of the righteous who saved thousands of lives. No book I have read covers the harrowing details of life in the Ghetto prisons as well and as comprehensively as this one.
The goal of Holocaust scholarship must be to keep the story alive. The Shoah was remains and pray to God will always be, the worst atrocity in human history. The scale of it staggers the mind. This book succeeds admirably in exposing the sheer evil while maintaining a proper reverence for the memory of the victims. It is necessary to avoid any implication of a mitigation of the horror. For example, as the authors state in the chapter on the Righteous Gentiles: It is not appropriate to say six million perished but thousands were saved by good people. It is necessary to say six million perished AND thousands were saved by good people. To understand the distinction between these two sentences is to understand the proper way to study the Holocaust. This is a book that must be read by everyone so that we should NEVER FORGET.
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Resistance : The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman ISBN: 0395901308 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 23 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826801 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller, Helmut Freitag, Susanne Flatauer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ISBN: 1566632714 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Auschwitz by Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt ISBN: 0393322912 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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