Nate
Hard to say anything about this book that the book doesn’t explain/tell/relive better. As a person who was mystified by the holocaust and how people, any people, could do so much harm to so many with so little compassion or empathy, I have read many accountings of the events during WWII and this is a book that should be required reading for everyone. I spent many hours researching Auschwitz and the cruelty planned and built into the very structure of the camp and its expansions. This book makes all of those facts and historical accounts more real. It doesn’t put a face on the survivors. There are too few. It doesn’t put names to those who never made it through the end of the war. There are too many. Instead it puts a feeling that isn’t pity in my chest for all of those who suffered. We must be sure it never happens again. Anywhere. To anyone.
Hard to say anything about this book that the book doesn’t explain/tell/relive better. As a person who was mystified by the holocaust and how people, any people, could do so much harm to so many with so little compassion or empathy, I have read many accountings of the events during WWII and this is a book that should be required reading for everyone. I spent many hours researching Auschwitz and the cruelty planned and built into the very structure of the camp and its expansions. This book makes all of those facts and historical accounts more real. It doesn’t put a face on the survivors. There are too few. It doesn’t put names to those who never made it through the end of the war. There are too many. Instead it puts a feeling that isn’t pity in my chest for all of those who suffered. We must be sure it never happens again. Anywhere. To anyone.