Witness to the Holocaust
Author | : Michael Berenbaum |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1997-04-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 0062701088 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780062701084 |
Rating | : 4/5 (084 Downloads) |
Download or read book Witness to the Holocaust written by Michael Berenbaum and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 years after the liberation of the death camps in Nazi Germany, the former project director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and current director of its Research Institute, compiles a fascinating collection of firsthand accounts of the Holocaust. From the first boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany in 1933 to testimony at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, this illustrated volume includes survivor testimonies, letters, government documents, newspaper reports, diary entries and other firsthand materials, as well as Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum's insightful commentary putting the materials into context. The book's chronologically organized documentary approach provides a unique perspective on this much-published subject, and drawing on the most current research in the field of Holocaust studies, offers readers an unforgettable and engrossing history of the Nazis' largely successful effort to eradicate the Jews and other "undesirables" of Europe.