Aasiyah Sidat (34 KP) rated The Tattooist of Auschwitz in Books
Jul 11, 2018
Those words bring into mind images of destruction, devastation and death. Broken families, broken homes and broken lives; the terror inflicted by Hitler and his minions were cold and unthinking. The prisoners in those camps were treated not like humans, not even like animals but as 'mistakes' or 'messes' that could be cleaned up without a second thought.
In his mind, Hitler thought he was right. He or his followers did not express any guilt or remorse at taking so many lives and for me, that is far worse. To the Nazis, they were correct and were fulfilling their duty. It is scary what can be accomplished when people believe so strongly in a certain ideal.
Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2018/07/we-remember.html
Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
Sigrid Weigel and Sybille Kramer
Book
What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in...
Roman Polanski
Book
Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French - Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who...
Major/Minor
Book
A vivid and haunting coming of age memoir set in Paris in the 1980s. Originally published to...
Incident at Vichy
Book
In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason...
The Young Survivors
8.0
Rate It
Book
What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as...
Angel’s Fury
Book
I've started to have dreams while I'm awake. I remember music I've never heard. . . . I've got all...
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe and Lilit Thwaites
8.4
Rate It
Book
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of...
Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger
Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger
Book
At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the...
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
Book
The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our...