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“Historical
accounts of tragedies are both moving and necessary. We must know the truth of what happens;
causes, effects, the impacts, whatever “meaning” there is to be gleaned from
reflection and analysis.
But
an overview, regardless of its excellence, must be reinforced by a microview—
What happened in the details?....
Jews
were betrayed by neighbors, robbed, beaten, removed from their sources of work,
deported, starved, tortured, murdered—and still some survived.”
Harry James Cargas, Professor of English emeritus, Webster University
Internationally known scholar of Holocaust literature
DEDICATION...with a mother's strong love, to all the children, both my own and those left orphans by the Holocaust.
All my beloved children,
Sparks scattered by the Holocaust's blade,
Your rescue is a miracle, a work of wonder,
But still, not all were chosen...
Unite, make a great blade of sparks.
Tell THEM how you escaped annihilation,
In their darkness increase your purity,
But do not forget: revenge sevenfold....
The Author
Additional Adult Survivor Accounts
"I did not intend, nor would I have been able, to do a historian's work, that is, exhaustively examine the sources. I have almost exclusively confined myself to the National Socialist Lagers (camps) because I had direct experience only of these; I also have had copious indirect experience of them through books read, stories listened to, and encounters with the readers of my first two books. Besides, up to the moment of this writing, and notwithstanding the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the shame of the Gulags, the useless and bloody Vietnam War, the Cambodian self-genocide, the desaparecidos of Argentina, and the many atrocious and stupid wars we have seen since, the Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty." From The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi (p21).
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