Holocaust Testimonies : European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey

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A project of the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University, New Jersey, this book is a reference tool for teaching the Holocaust, for Holocaust survivors and their families, and for the general reader. Drawing on the center’s central missions is to produce and preserve a series of oral-history videotapes in accordance with the personal experiences of Holocaust survivors who reside in New Jersey. Joseph J. Preil brings together the most compelling testimonies of 153 Holocaust survivors in addition to twenty concentration-camp liberators. Through these riveting accounts, the book traces the mass murder of the Jews across Europe in a geographical in addition to chronological order. The testimonies in every chapter are grouped by the witnesses’ country or region of origin, preceded by a brief introduction of the history of events in a particular area. In the last a part of the book, American soldiers recount their impressions of being present at the liberation of the camps.

“If you’ll be able to consider that the Jew to the German was once like a cockroach. In the US, if you step on a cockroach . . . it doesn’t mean anything to you. The same thing, exactly the same thing, the Jew was once to the German—a cockroach. . . . One particular Shabbos (Sabbath), they shot twelve or thirteen people in my area. In other words, the German had the right, if he saw me, any Jew that he saw on the street, he could go over to you evenly, take out his revolver, and put it to your head, and shoot you down like a . . . roach. . . . It was once a free-for-all.”—Testimony of Sol Einhorn, cited in Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey

 

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