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Title: Treblinka by George Steiner, Jean Francois Steiner ISBN: 0-451-62566-8 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: December, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An overpowering work. This book puts you inside the camp.
Comment: A chance meeting with a university professor in NY years ago caused me to ask the question of what was it really, really like to exist in a place of complete insanity; where you were placed at risk of death at every moment, where every act, every gesture could be your last. What sort of social structure could possibly evolve in such indescrible conditions where inmate sometimes turned on inmate for a crust of bread. And yet in this dark chaos an order did evolve. The inmates organized themselves to such an extent that they ultimately rose up in rebellion, overpowering their opressors and a small number actually escaped.
I have read numerous books on the Holocaust but none of those prepared me for Steiner's superb work. Many of the works I've read concerned Auschwitz. Frankly, I never focused on Treblinka. As there is a relatively large number of Auschwitz survivors, I suspect scholars tend to focus on them. As far as Treblinka survivors go... there were only 75. Steiner's descriptions are so overwhelming; his imagery so clear and lucid that you can see in your own mind, the acts of brutality and barbarism, as well as small acts of kindness as if you are actually there. I found myself cringing at the blows of the clubs and the slash of the whips. And yet he takes pains to describe acts of heroism one can hardly imagine. You see how exposure to this inhumanity affects the inmates. Some degenerate while others work at mostly futile individual escape attempts in order to warn the remaining Jews of what ultimately lies in wait at the railhead at Treblinka Station.
This is strong stuff and is not for everyone. This is not a book that compiles statistics but rather paints a searing description of day-to-day life with the inmates, their struggles to make it another day, their planning and finally their courageous attempt to escape.
If you make it through this book, read Kogon's "The Theory and Practice of Hell" and then the next time you see "ethnic cleansing" taking place in some remote venue such as the Balkans, Rawanda or Timor ask yourself just how far we've really come and how easily we've learned to mouth the words "never again".
Rating: 5
Summary: From Dehumanization to Survival in order to Bear Witness.
Comment: Treblinka is an incredible recreation of the human elements of the Holocaust. It portrays real, historical people who as innocent victims and against all odds, not only stayed alive but were able to organize a suicidal uprising, with the sole objective being the successful escape and survival of just One human being, in order to bear witness and testify to the hell and death of the infamous Treblinka. As a historian of the Holocaust I'm certain that this is the most important literary piece that one could find. This book will shock and infuriate you, but ultimately you will find it to be about hope and life. It is a must read for anyone who wants to be an additional witness to the most horrific chapter in the history of our world! This is one of those rare treasures that is truly capable of positively influencing one's life!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read on the Shoah
Comment: I don't need to go into detail about how moving this book is. Other reviewers have already done that, and have done a better job than I could hope to.
Instead, I want to emphasize what makes this particular book important. One of the earlier reviewers pointed out how this book explained the history, the mentality of the European Jewry, and why the Nazis were able to put them into camps relatively easily. The second aspect of this book that is vital to understanding the holocaust is that Steiner also shows how the death camps were developed: How the Germans resolved the technical and psychological problems connected with mass extermination. For example, an early version of the gas chamber involved trucks, with the exhaust directed to a contained hold. A driver just had to drive to a set destination, and on arrival, all the people in the back would be dead. This "clever" plan failed, because the drivers couldn't stand what they were doing: they all drove too fast, and the prisoners did not have time to suffocate. But from that first concept, the idea of the death chamber came to be.
For people today, who weren't there, you need to read this book to appreciate what was involved in this unprecedented mass destruction, all with 1930s technology.
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Title: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Yitzhak Arad, Yitzhak Arad ISBN: 0253213053 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.09 |
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Title: Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller, Helmut Freitag, Susanne Flatauer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ISBN: 1566632714 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel ISBN: 0897333764 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the Ss Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger, Primo Levi, Rudolph Hoss ISBN: 0306806983 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli ISBN: 1559702028 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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