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Come to This Court and Cry - How the Holocaust Ends (Paperback)
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Come to This Court and Cry - How the Holocaust Ends (Paperback)
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List price R395
Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R83 (21%)
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*A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A tremendous
feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations,
yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling'
Guardian 'Part detective story, part family history, part probing
inquiry into how best to reckon with the horrors of a previous
century, Come to This Court and Cry is bracingly original,
beautifully written and haunting. An astonishing book' Patrick
Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain To probe the past is to
submit the memory of one's ancestors to a certain kind of trial. In
this case, the trial came to me. A few years ago Linda Kinstler
discovered that a man fifty years dead - a former Nazi who belonged
to the same killing unit as her grandfather - was the subject of an
ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings
threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won
facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last
living survivors - the last legal witnesses - were dying. Across
the world, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through
the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the
better part of a century, and still judges ask for proof. Where do
these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission,
so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for
us to consider the crime scene of history closed? In this major
non-fiction debut, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family
story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to
prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound, Come
to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice
when revisionism, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like
history is slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the
stories we tell about ourselves, our families and our nations are
passed down, how we alter them, and what they demand of us.
'Kinstler reminds us of the dangerous instability of truth and
testimony, and the urgent need, in the twenty-first century, to
keep telling the history of the twentieth' Anne Applebaum 'A
masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev
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