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The Holocaust - The Jewish Tragedy (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Holocaust - The Jewish Tragedy (Paperback, New Ed)
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An unusual, highly readable overview. New histories of the
Holocaust can do more than recapitulate the familiar in new ways.
They can find their own angle, and they can make their own unique
contribution. For Gilbert, Holocaust history is to be seen from the
bottom up. He does not just narrate history from the point of view
of an objective historian. Virtually every historical episode is
rendered more real, sometimes in a frightening and sometimes in a
painfully sad way, by including testimonies of survivors who were
witnesses. This technique, in which the survivors speak for the
dead, is in and of itself an enormously provocative way of blending
form and function. Gilbert, Winston Churchill's official
biographer, has written before on the Holocaust and other periods
of Jewish history. But this is his best book, because it succeeds
at so many levels. He aimed to restore dignity to the victims, a
dignity that was all many had to resist with and therefore
precisely what the Nazis wished to destroy. This he has done as we
hear the stories of the dead told by those who were there. The
whole area of resistance is treated in significant detail. What
emerges is a sometimes jarring juxtaposition of tale and history, a
book replete with bravery and self-sacrifice and love. This long
book merits careful reading, reading that will be emotionally
overwhelming at times. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of
Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account,
in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the
Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race.
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