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| Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:13AM | | | | Eternal Treblinka Preface | Tags: animal rights, book, Holocaust, Kafka, Camus, Isaac Bashevis Singer
| | | While in New York doing graduate work at Columbia University, I became close friends with a German Jewish refugee, traumatized by her experience of living in Nazi Germany for six years. Her story moved me deeply, so I took courses and read extensively to learn more. Yuri Suhl, author of They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe, and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, editor of The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, were especially helpful.
Later when I became a history teacher and looked for, but could not find, a book on the background of the Holocaust suitable for my students, I wrote Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond to... | | | | | |
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