In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?”Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings … parents and siblings sent to the gas chambers; of starving children beaten for trying to steal a morsel of food; of people who saw their friends commit suicide to save themselves from the daily agony they endured. The recollections are from the start of the warthe home invasions, the Gestapo busts, and the ghettosas well as the daily hell of the concentration camps and what actually happened inside.
Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and this hefty collection of stories told by its survivors is one of the most important books of our time. It was compiled by award-winning author Anthony S. Pitch, who worked with sources such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to get survivors’ stories compiled together and to supplement them with images from the war. These memories must be told and held onto so what happened is documented; so the lives of those who perished are not forgottenso history does not repeat itself.
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Brief sketches, little continuity.
The book was excellent. Written in such a manner, that was like short blurbs about what went on over there. By easy-to-read, I mean the format it was written in made it east-to-read, the content of the book was difficult to read, because it was an in-your-face kind of discriptors that we’re profound in their sadistic treatment of th Jews.
This book will never make you forget the holocaust. I like one of their sayings, “If the holocaust never happened, then where’s my family?”
Just the right amount of information about each persons story without being to disturbing but still allow the reader get a full sense of the situation.
I like history
A good read, tragic stories of the Holocaust
I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. It is a very sad account of the persecution of Jewish people. Shouldn’t have been published.
True accounts of what should never happen again.