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Holocaust Testimonies : European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey

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This book really strikes home for me, lifting the veil on a much-discussed, sometimes denied (which I find unfathomable), and extremely dark moment in human history, made very personal because my father-in-law was one of the liberators who relates his story in his own words in this account. The book as a whole provides context and substance that's deep, penetrating, and thought-provoking, but his account--which he had rarely spoke of in his lifetime with his daughters or myself--struck a very deep chord in my soul. He was the medical doctor who was the third person to enter Dachau and oversaw the medical concerns upon liberation, and the horror he relates is uncanny. Read this book and gain a far deeper understanding of how wrong human nature can go. Forgive but never forget, lest we keep repeating such atrocities.

I have been recently reading everything I can get my hands on about the Holocaust. This book was an excellent read. A lot of short accounts from different angles and experiences.