Eternal Treblinka
ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson, Ph.D. (New York: Lantern Books, 2002), is about the common roots of animal and human oppression and similarities between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals.
The book's title comes from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
The book describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth and the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) during modern times--with America giving the world the slaughterhouse and Nazi Germany giving it the gas chamber. The book concludes with profiles of Holocaust-connected Jewish and German animal advocates, as well as a chapter on the compassionate vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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"Charles Patterson's book will go a long way towards righting the terrible wrongs that human beings throughout history have perpetrated on non-human animals. I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message."
--Dr. Jane Goodall
"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly recommended...a unique contribution."
--Midwest Book Review
"Eternal Treblinka should be on every list of essential reading for an informed citizenry...for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it tells." --National Jewish Post & Opinion
"The moral challenge posed by Eternal Treblinka turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal lesson of the Holocaust."
--Maariv (Israeli newspaper)
"Eternal Treblinka promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century."
--Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
"It grips like a thriller."
--The Freethinker (UK)
Last Rites (novel)
"Louis Auchincloss and J.D. Salinger, move over! <i>Last Rites</i>, a first novel by Charles Patterson, is every bit as entertaining and maybe even better written than <i>The Rector of Justin</i> and <i>Catcher in the Rye</i>."
--KENT QUARTERLY (Winter 2008)
