Shadows of Auschwitz: A Christian Response to the Holocaust

by Harry J. Cargas

Traces the history of Christian antiSemitism, explores Christian silence in the face of the Holocaust, and offers concrete steps to be taken toward reconciliation

Genres: Holocaust

Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

Harry James Cargas was an American scholar, author, and teacher best known for his writing and research on the Holocaust, Jewish-Catholic relations, and American literature. He was a professor at Webster University for nearly three decades, and his circle of friends and collaborators included the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

Reviews

[Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

A startling and sober selection of photographs together with the author's insightful comments regarding the Holocaust and how the Christian community did or did not respond to it. The book also contains a short summary of Jewish persecution throughout history. Every so often, we should look at books like this. Lest we forget.

...the things I saw beggar description...the visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'. These were the words of General Eisenhower to Chief-of-Staff George Marshall.

The future is now.