A PROMISE TO REMEMBER

Berenbaum’s powerful narrative forms a concise history of the Holocaust with each of its 15 chapters addressing a different topic, moving from the rise of the Nazis and ghettoization to the death camps and liberation. Events gain electric immediacy as survivors tell their various stories. Many can be heard on the companion audio CD. Narrated by Berenbaum, the hour-long CD with 11 topical tracks includes a 31-page transcript. Illustrated with nearly 70 sepia photographs, the book also encloses 13 facsimile documents easily removable from storage pockets securely built-in among the pages. Documents include notes and English translations. Chapter titles: “Introduction: The World Before,” “The Assault Against the Jews,” “Theresienstadt: Life in the Ghetto,” “The Einsatzgruppen,” “The Decision to Kill the Jews,” “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” “Life Inside the Camps,” “The Sonderkommando,” “A Mosaic of Victims,” “Bystandanders: News of the Final Solution,” “Rescue: Denmark and Bulgaria,” “The Murder of the Hungarian Jews,” “Death Marches,” “Liberation,” and “The Return to Life.”

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