Holocaust: A History
by Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt
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This book is a dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history. Unrivaled in reach and scope, Holocaust illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, the failure of international rescue, and the success of individual rescuers. It alone in show more Holocaust literature negotiates the chasm between the two histories, that of the perpetrators and of the victims and their families, shining new light on German actions and Jewish reactions. No other book in any language has so embraced this multifaceted story. Holocaust uniquely makes use of oral histories recorded by the authors over fifteen years across Europe and the United States, as well as never-before-analyzed archival documents, letters, and diaries; it contains in addition seventy-five illustrations and sixteen original maps, each accompanied by an extended caption. show lessTags
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The American-born Deborah Dwork and the Dutch-born Robert Jan Van Pelt met in London in 1981. Dwork is an internationally renowned social historian of the Holocaust, whose classic Children With A Star gave voice to the silenced youngsters caught in the net of Nazism. She is the founding director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and show more Genocide Studies, and Rose Professor of Holocaust History, at Clark University. Van Pelt is professor of cultural history in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. He acted as an expert witness to defend history against Holocaust-denier David Irving. His definitive book, The Case for Auschwitz, presents the courtroom drama of his testimony -- which served to win the case and defeat Irving show less
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