Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories Of Prisoners Surviving The Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories And Heroes Of Auschwitz

by Cyrus J. Zachary

True Stories Of Prisoners Surviving The Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories And Heroes Of Auschwitz The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire". In 1933 the population of Jews in Europe was about nine million. After Adolf Hitler came to power on a campaign of aggressive foreign policy, focus on domestic unification and the idea of racial superiority - nearly two thirds of the Jewish people in the continent had perished. The 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' was, of course, murder. Although Jews, who were seen by Hitler and the Nazi regime as primarily responsible for Germany's capitulation in the First World War, in addition to being inferior as a race, were the primary targets, several other demographics also received attention during the holocaust. The knowledge that even though the contents shall be often-times shocking and heart-wrenching, this chapter in human history needs to be read and processed by us to prevent such a heinous crime from ever happening again.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

86 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2015

Reviews

[J.T.K. Gibbs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Concise and devastating. A good supplement to any Holocaust study program.

[Alex Hoogland]

If you need something to be thankful for, read one of these accounts each morning about the gruesome, harrowing details of Jewish survivors from the Holocaust. The editing could have been improved, but the point comes across and the stories are incredible.

[Tammielyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this book is written in a 'here's the facts' style so readers were spared agonizing personal accounts of what the survivors had to endure, this still serves as a deeply disturbing - and timely -reminder of what can happen when hate is normalized and then allowed to run rampant.

[Candy Robosky · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the stories are again very touching, some of them are way too short in what they tell us and don't really add to the overall impact of the book. Giving us just a few short pages of a story left me wanting so much more and way too many questions for me to really be invested in the story. The first volume only had two stories but they were so much more impactful than the stories in this volume.

[Sheila Myers · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly good look at what people endured and can serve as an introduction to the topic. I would've rated it higher, but it needs some editing.

[Adrian · Rating 1 out of 5]

The writing was horrible. At first, I thought maybe this was an essay written by a middle schooler. However, by the end, I decided that I believe it was horribly translated into English.
The Holocaust was a horrible time in history. This book did a piss-poor job of telling these people's stories. If I could give this book 0 stars, I would. It was incredibly hard to read, and not for the right reasons.