Synopses & Reviews
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness. (CHAIM GINOTT)
"Could the Holocaust happen again? Over the years I have often put the question to my young students. And they, consistently, have answered yes, while I said no. I saw it as a unique event that would remain unique. I believed that if mankind had learned anything from it, it was that hate and murder reach beyond the direct participants; he who begins by killing another, in the end will kill his own. I was wrong. What happened once, could happen again. Perhaps I am exaggerating. Perhaps I am over-sensitive. But then I belong to a traumatized generation. We have learned to take threats more seriously than promises." (ELIE WIESEL)
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I kept them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death." (ANNE FRANK)
Synopsis
More than 100 eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documentary materials, and selections from eminent writers about the Holocaust and genocide are gathered in this moving collection, a work that probes into the origins of unthinkable acts and considers how we might prevent them in the future.
Synopsis
A collection of over 100 eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documentary materials, and selections from eminent writers about the Holocaust and genocide.
About the Author
Roselle K. Chartock, Ed.D., is professor of education at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She taught social studies for fifteen years at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA, where she resides. Her most recent publications include Educational Foundations: An Anthology and a chapter in Including Music in a Study of the Holocaust. She continues to write, lecture, and offer workshops on the subject of the Holocaust.Jack Spencer has been part of the Berkshire Hills Regional School system in Great Barrington, MA for 30 years as a social studies teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. He lives in Stockbridge, MA.
Table of Contents
I. WHAT HAPPENED?
II. VICTIMS AND VICTIMIZERS (79)
III. HOW AND WHY? (143)
IV. WHAT DOES THE HOLOCAUST REVEAL ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY? (199)
V. AFTERMATH (277)
VI. COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN? (309)