During the Holocaust, thousands of Jews from Germany, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, and later Hungary were transported to Latvia, where
they were concentrated in the Riga Ghetto and in extermination
camps--joining the thousands of Latvian Jews who were already
interned there. Only a few hundred survived. Gertrude Schneider,
herself a survivor of the death camps, traveled Eastern Europe,
Israel, and the United States to collect statements of other
survivors as well as documentary evidence on the lives of the
inmates, guards, and others who witnessed the Latvian Holocaust.
Collected in The Unfinished Road are the remembrances of survivors.
Each personal account is combined with a note on the individual's
subsequent life. The volume concludes with a general bibliography
and index.
To begin to understand the Holocaust, one must somehow
personalize the numbing statistics of the millions who were
transported, concentrated, and killed. This volume moves in that
direction by providing the reader with the unique human responses
of those who actually witnessed the atrocities, from the Jewish SS
guard in the camps to the Latvian-Swedish businessman-humanitarian,
himself a Jew, who negotiated with Himmler to save concentration
camp inmates; from those whose fate and cunning enabled them to
survive to and later lead fulfilling lives; and to those broken by
the experience. Above all, it combines a portrait of unbelievable
courage and endurance with one of unspeakable brutality. Scholars
and general readers alike will find Schneider's collection a
valuable reminder.
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