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Title: Witness : Images of Auschwitz by David Olere, Alexander Oler, Alexandre Oler, Serge Klarsfeld ISBN: 0-941037-69-X Publisher: D & F Scott Pub Inc Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Witness: Images of Auschwitz" by D. Olere and A. Oler
Comment: This slim volume contains over forty drawings and paintings done by David Olere. He did these works from personal remembrances of his time at Auschwitz death camp. The text is written by his son, Alexandre, who was not at the camp, but hiding out with his mother.
Olere spent his time in the camp working in the crematorium. He would bring the bodies from the chambers and put them in the ovens. His story is not told as most stories are. His story is told through his pictures and his son's writing. Both are horrific to witness. "Witness" is an important word in this book. Through Olere's art, the reader witnesses what he witnessed. Through Oler's words, the reader becomes a witness. The father and son force the reader to look at the horror, and not turn away.
The images are not for the faint of heart, but the faint of heart should witness this book. Everyone should witness this book. Oler writes that his father died in his eighties but not of a disease. He died from a broken heart when university professors began to deny the Holocaust altogether.
"Witness: Images of Auschwitz" is a small, terrifying book. I suggest it to anyone who thinks we should "get past" the horrors of World War II, and the events of September 11, 2001.
Quote:
"I did not survive to rewrite the history
Of the Second World War
And explain how it came about and why.
I have no idea. I have no opinions.
I survived just to show you what it is like
Every day in the camp.
I say, "What it is like," not how it was.
To me it still is. I am in it.
Every morning I start all over again from
The Hell Train on.
Every night, I struggle for my next breath
Of fresh air."
--page 26
Rating: 5
Summary: Horrifically Honest
Comment: I first saw this book when I was visiting the Holocaust Museum (in Washington) and it was equally disturbing as all the displays/exhibits in the museum. The illustrator is a very talented artist, and the author of the text was very poetic. It's an extremely powerful piece of work, both terrifying and also touching. Specifically, I remember the pictures of the phases of the gas chamber, and the text entitled something like "How Many More?" which was a prayer. An incredible book, but only for mature audiences.
Rating: 4
Summary: The book caused me to become very mentally disturbed
Comment: The books images are very very disturbing. I will never be the same, little kids should not see this. Good Lord all the humanity. Please do not read it if you are weak of heart. If you are satomasikist then go right ahead.
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Title: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the Ss Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger, Primo Levi, Rudolph Hoss ISBN: 0306806983 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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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: Escape from Sobibor by Richard Rashke ISBN: 0252064798 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps by Terrence. Des Pres ISBN: 0195027035 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel ISBN: 0140169318 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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