Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived

by Lyn Smith

A landmark achievement in Holocaust scholarship, Remembering Voices of the Holocaust is culled from hours of first person accounts from survivors recorded for inclusion in the sound archives of both the Imperial War Museum in London, and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. In their own words, Jewish survivors as well as Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and both perpetrators and ordinary observers recount the entire horrific arc of the Holocaust from the ominous rise of the Nazi party during the Weimar days through the liquidation of the ghettos and the institution of Hitler's "final solution," continuing on to the liberation of the camps and the harrowing aftermath of the War.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Holocaust, World War II

372 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 20, 2009

Reviews

[Susanne Messier · Rating 5 out of 5]

It brought the gruesome reality of the holocaust to light.

[Bill Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

My family recently went to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and were devastated. I felt a need to read up on this darkest of all events in human history. Lyn Smiths collection of holocaust survivor's memories, in their own words, filled the need. This is probably a book that should be mandatory reading in high school lest this tragedy fade from our memories.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Think of the worst thing you can possibly imagine...
this book is worse.
This book should be required reading on the PLANET to better understand just how devastating, cruel, heartbreaking and sad the Holocaust was. I was in utter shock at what I read. I would rather put a bullet to my own head than treat others that way. Those SS officers DID have a choice. They were monsters.

[Jan Norton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an oral history of the entire span of the holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. This book brings to light the horror of the Holocaust. I was compelled to read every word. It made me feel as if I was in the middle of this horrible part of history.

[Xaanua · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a heart-wrenching book which by turn explained the impressions, the feeling of those who survived The Holocaust. It's terrible to read how they dealt with pain, himilliations and how some of them never overcame what it had happened

[Kathleen Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such an important book... the words of those who survived.

[SarahHiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic Book

The stories in the book are heart-wrenching. And I'm sure it's only a fraction of the horror. The book itself is well written and organized well.

[Daniel Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing. There were parts of this book that were painful to read. The victims here were in incredibly horrible situations and of course many died, but for those who survived, it's just horrendous what they went through as well as how they were able to carry on during and after it all. Books like this - narrative history - is so much more real than reading a historical account of an event like this.