Volume 44, Number 11 · June 26, 1997
Memories of Hell
By Istvan Deak
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Arthur Denner, translated by Abigail Pollak
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 307 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman
by Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox
Westview Press, 255 pp., $25.00
Auschwitz and After
by Charlotte Delbo, translated by Rosette C. Lamont, with an introduction by Lawrence L. Langer
Yale University Press, 354 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Death Comes in Yellow: Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp
by Felicja Karay, translated by Sara Kitai
Harwood Academic Publishers, 273 pp., $48.00
The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp
by Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William Templer
Princeton University Press, 356 pp., $29.95
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto
edited by Alan Adelson, translated by Kamil Turowski
Oxford University Press, 271 pp., $27.50
Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945
by Richard C. Lukas
Hippocrene Books, 263 pp., $24.95
Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide
edited with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum, with a foreword by Israel W. Charny
Westview Press, 222 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka
by Richard Glazar, translated by Roslyn Theobald, foreword by Wolfgang Benz
Northwestern University Press, 196 pp., $16.95
It is hard to add much to the work of such eyewitnesses of the Holocaust as Primo Levi, Jean Améry, and Bruno Bettelheim or of the Holocaust historians Raul Hilberg, Omer Bartov, Michael Marrus, and Christopher Browning. Still, thousands of books have been published on the subject since the 1970s, many of them written by survivors of the camps, dozens of them appearing every few months. Although critics seldom acknowledge it, these books are often repetitive or lacking in distinction or insight.
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