Opened in April 1993, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw
ghetto uprising, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., summons all who enter its portals to rise to an
important and extraordinary challenge: to remember and immortalize
the 6 million Jews and millions of other Nazi victims of World War
II - Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, the handicapped, Jehovah's
Witnesses, political and religious dissidents, Soviet prisoners of
war - who were murdered in the most horrifying event of our time:
the Holocaust. The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the
Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum - the living memorial to the victims of
the Holocaust that tells a story the world must know in the most
moving and powerful visual and verbal way. Drawing on the museum's
artifacts and its extensive eyewitness testimony collection, the
second largest in the world, and including over 200 photographic
images from the museum's collections, The World Must Know details
the four major historical participants: the perpetrator, the
bystander, the rescuer, and, above all, the victim. The World Must
Know journeys back to a time when Jewish culture thrived in Europe,
to family Shabbat dinners and joyous Passover celebrations where
the lighting of the candles was done before unshuttered windows,
and proceeds to that point when the most unspeakable evil in
history began, and then bears witness to the most horrifying
shattering of innocent lives. Starting with the rise of nazism, The
World Must Know reveals the human stories of the Holocaust,
documenting the range of psychological extremes from the evil of
the Nazi doctors whostaffed the death camps and determined "who
shall live and who shall die", to the nobility of ordinary
citizens, like those in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,
France, who risked their own lives by offering their homes as
havens to refugee Jews, to the horror of entire families as they
received sudden orders to pack up only what they could carry, leave
their homes, and report to a train station for "resettlement in the
East", a euphemism for deportation to Auschwitz, Treblinka,
Sobibor, and other death or concentration camps. The powerful and
evocative images in The World Must Know tell the stories of hope
and death - the grim reality of the ghettos, the mass murders of
the mobile killing units, the concentration camps, and the death
camps, as well as the brave and heart-wrenching stories of
resistance and rescue, through which we see the human necessity for
- and the ultimate power of - personal choice. More than a
catalogue of the museum's exhibit, The World Must Know is a study
and exploration of the Holocaust that fulfills the commandment from
those who perished, which seared the souls of those who survived:
Remember. Do not let the world forget. This is a significant
contribution to our understanding of the history of the Holocaust
that will not only memorialize the past by educating the
generations that follow but also transform the future by
sensitizing those who will shape it. That is the challenge to, and
the responsibility of, all survivors everywhere.
General
Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2006 |
First published: |
December 2005 |
Authors: |
Michael Berenbaum
|
Dimensions: |
304 x 230 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
260 |
Edition: |
revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8018-8358-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8018-8358-X |
Barcode: |
9780801883583 |
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