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senoritaokie's review
4.0
This book is more like a magazine reading type. So it does take a while to get through it and it's not necessarily an easy read it's more like a historical text. It has a lot of information and it is a great piece to add to yourself and read from time to time. There's so much information I feel like you have to take it in strides.
ashleysbooknook's review
5.0
I actually helped in a small part of this book, researching, interviewing, and writing a part of the life of one of the survivors. It was a fascinating experience to learn in depth and personally, the experience of one of the strongest and bravest people in history. Anyone who can survive something like the Holocaust and come out the other side living a full and happy life is a hero in my book. This is a treasured resource, showing the mass impact this horrible event had on so many lives. These are real people with real experiences that they are willing to revisit and share so that we can better educate future generations. I am grateful for them!
shmandy's review
5.0
I was using this for research but I got so caught up in it I forgot to take notes most of the time. It's morbid and the pictures add to the ill feeling in your stomach while reading but it's an exceptionally well done book about an exceptionally horrible time.
whatsnonfiction's review
5.0
Intensely comprehensive timeline of a terrible history, but this book makes it palatable if you can take the time to get through it. A big undertaking, but definitely worth it. So many personal stories, photos, documents; it's just incredible. If other people are saying it has a strong zionist leaning, I guess so, but in the context of the history of the time there was a lot going on in that area. A lot of the zionist portions are included here to show what was and was not being done through international governments and their relationships with zionist organizations, and the policies regarding rescue and resettlement. That didn't bother me or make me discredit any of the rest of the information, it was just circumstance. It's a really haunting text, but ultimately so important - as the book says, at the least, we owe remembrance.
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