About this title: Accompanied by photographs selected from the collection of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as by testimony of fellow Holocaust survivors, Nobel laureate Wiesel recalls the key events of that history.
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Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schocken Books, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805241822ISBN:0805241825
Description: Photographs. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. DECORATIVE CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schocken Books
Date Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-13:9780805241822ISBN:0805241825
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schocken
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805241822ISBN:0805241825
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Description: Schocken Books, Ny, 2002 copyright, translated from the French by Benjamin Moser, this quarto sized hardback book is bound in pictorial covers and is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket, First Edition stated, ISBN: 0805241825. Judaism, holocaust, WWII, photography. read more
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Description: New. A poignant, powerful distillation of the Holocaust experience from the internationally acclaimed writer and Nobel laureate. In his first book, "Night, Elie Wiesel described his concentration camp experience, but he has rarely written directly about t... read more
Description: New. Illustrated with photographs from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a collection of memories and reflections sheds light on the horrors of the Holocaust, from Hitler's rise to power and the creation of the Third Reich to the concentration camps and genocide, to liberation. read more
"I had the pleasure of meeting Elie Wiesel and having him sign this book for me at a lecture at the National Press Club. Anyone and everyone who survived the debacle of the holocaust deserves to tell their story. It is a testament to the human spirit."
"The point of a Holocaust book is not to be the best or worst at remembering something (as in, "star-worthy,"), but to bear witness to it and remember it--not because it's easy or desirable to remember, but to make sure it stays in memory.
This book provides a sweeping summary of the Holocaust, from the time of the systematic discrimination against the Jews in Europe (Hungary is the perspective of this particular author) to their systematic extermination. I gave this book four stars because the text is detailed but almost too much to include in just one book.
Large, black and white photos form the bulk of this book and they speak millions of words on their own. To try to summarize the Holocaust on the margins of a mere 45 pages is almost too overwhelming, while not being sufficiently detailed.
However, I appreciated reading the accounts of survivors after the liberation of the camps and the difficulties and discriminations they continued to face as they tried to figure out where to live. Wiesel gives the example of the many who returned to their former homes, only to find them occupied by a new owner greeting them "with anger and with hate--'What, you aren't dead?'" He also doesn't spare the truth in regards to the many European and American leaders who knew what was happening but did not bomb the train tracks that continued to ship hundreds of thousands of prisoners to their mass exterminations, or do anything.
Finally, there is nothing quite like the inner crisis that ensues upon viewing pictures of piles and piles of human corpses being pushed around by a bulldozer, or of women peeling potatoes within 20 feet of these jagged remains--a chaotic horizon of arms, legs, faces. What do you do with this? Regardless, I am left with the sense that I and the world are better off having viewed it."
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