Voices From the Holocaust by Harry James Cargas

Voices From the Holocaust

Harry James Cargas
185 pages
The University Press of Kentucky
Apr 2013
Hardcover
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" Interviews with: Yitzhak Arad Leo Eitinger Emil Fackenheim Whitney Harris Jan Karski Arnost Lusting Mordecai Paldiel Marion Pritchard Dorothee Soelle Leon Wells Elie Wiesel Simon Wiesenthal The late Harry James Cargas was professor emeritus of literature and language at Webster University and author of thirty-two books, including Problems Unique to the Holocaust.

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Even 50 years after the event, this collection of interviews with survivors and bystanders still manages to give the reader a new sense of insight into the Holocaust. In candid language, we listen as Jan Karski, who met FDR in 1943, calls the Holocaust "the second original sin"; as Yitzhak Arad, who survived in the Polish forests, talks about the structure of the Soviet Partisan Movement; as Marion Pritchard recalls for us the moment when she killed a Dutch Nazi; and as Whitney Harris, member of the U.S. prosecution team at Nuremberg, gives a behind-the-curtain view of the trials. And there are many others--Leo Eitinger, Leon Wells, Fackenheim, and Wiesel among them. The themes of death and rebirth run through many of the interviews, which Cargas conducts expertly from his own knowledge and involvement. He concludes with a discourse on the recent denial of the Holocaust. A very readable, current book.
- Gerda Haas, JCC Lib., Minneapolis
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"Expertly conducted, candid interviews with Jan Karski, Elie Wiesel, Yitzhak Arad, and nine others. A new sense of insight into the Holocaust. A very readable, current book." -- Library Journal

"This excellent volume includes essays by scholars of history, literature, religion, and philosophy and approaches the theme of uniqueness and the Holocaust in an importantly new way." -- Virginia Quarterly Review --This text refers to the paperback edition. Read more Continue reading Read less
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Published 2013
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