A good book dealing with the Nazi concentration camps?
11-15-07, 01:14 AM
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A good book dealing with the Nazi concentration camps?
I am looking to read some books based on this subject. Either a books showing one persons personal account being in one of the camps or a book just giving the overview as to what happened at the camps. Just basically something that is educational and engaging.
Any recommendations?
Any recommendations?
11-15-07, 05:00 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Books like that just make me so sad.
Yeah I wasnt looking for any laughs or anything. I would just like to get more educated on the topic.
Originally Posted by Sarah8
Books like that just make me so sad.
11-17-07, 03:09 PM
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I would also second Night. It's pretty chilling...here's what Amazon says:
Amazon.com
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
The New York Times
"A slim volume of terrifying power"
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In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
The New York Times
"A slim volume of terrifying power"
11-17-07, 05:06 PM
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Night. Yes. If any single book. Maus is good, but it is not Night.
Ringside, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? If you are college level I'm surprised Night hasn't already been mandatory reading for you.
Ringside, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? If you are college level I'm surprised Night hasn't already been mandatory reading for you.
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11-18-07, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by namrufmot
Night was a gripping tale of one persons (or family) experience but if you actually want to learn about the details behind the running of the camps you wont learn much.
11-18-07, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric F
Listen to Mr. Wiesel speak and you might think otherwise. He came to speak at my public high school when I was a senior (and I'm in my late thirties) and I think he's still touring American schools giving talks.
Apples and oranges...I'm sure Elie knows his stuff but the book (which was what we were discussing) does not go into any technical details about the camps - construction, delivery schedules, camp origina, etc.
11-27-07, 04:15 PM
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Escape from Sobibor would be another.
