Witness to the Holocaust

By: Michael Berenbaum

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062701088
• ISBN13: 9780062701084
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

a wonderfully composed materpiece

throughout my life i've read many books and wrote several papers on the holocaust.reading this book not only changed my view on where and how the physical setting took place, but it made me feel as if i were reading something that was not yet released to the public(ie. professors). the visual pictures are graphic and so are the effects on your mind. this book is by far yhe best book w/historical significance and moral significance. I would recomend this book to college and high school students alike. and to the kids who enjoy reading but dont have time, the book is fast paced( the opposite of most books with a lot of meat).