Oral History Series

Lewin includes testaments from not only Nazi Holocaust survivors, but also from Jews who were not interred, and from the liberators. Interviews with survivors tell what happened to them after their country was occupied by the Germans, their deportation and interment, their eventual liberations, and what they thought about their experiences. Accounts by the liberators are sometimes more vivid because they describe what they saw in terms of feelings and emotions, whereas the victims seem almost forced into a clinical detachment. All of the interviews provide short, poignant statements about incredible inhumanity. The book includes pictures of survivors, then and now, and a teacher's guide to activities. With the recent upsurge in anti-Semitism, this book makes even more urgent the appeal by the Holocaust survivors not to forget. A compelling collection. --Stuart A. MacCaffray, Jr., Lake Braddock Secondary Sch . , Fairfax Co . , VA
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