Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology [CD-ROM]

Jean E. Brown (Author), Elaine C. Stephens (Author), Janet E. Rubin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997 | ISBN-10: 084425911X | ISBN-13: 978-0844259116 | Edition: Cdr

Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocaust is difficult because there was no standard Holocaust experience. Each person who experienced the Holocaust - whether victim, witness, resuer, or descendant - has a unique story to tell. Selections for this anthology include fiction (both short stories and excepts from novels), poetry, historical accounts, biographical sketches, and drama. Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note about the author and an introduction. In addition, each chapter opens with material that provides historical context for the selections that follow.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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This comprehensive anthology of Holocaust experiences and hatred uses poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama to bring alive the images and experiences of the event. Courage as well as cruelty are forces explored through this collection of literature from victims, witnesses and descendants: the result blends historical insights with first-person meaning and will prove especially important to future generations. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group; Cdr edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084425911X
• ISBN-13: 978-0844259116
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,242,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC Teacher Resource!!!!!, March 8, 2007

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Caley Robinson (Kansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology (Paperback)

I am a middle school English teacher and I purchased the anthology for additional resources for my Anne Frank Unit. The material included in the anthology contains wonderful poetry, memoirs, plays and journal entries from an immense number of sources, from Elie Wiesel to children lost in the Holocaust. The anthology is powerful and moving! The information within the text covers multiple aspects of the Holocaust. I enjoyed the material which brought attention to the guilt individuals who survived the Holocaust experienced after learning their loved ones were lost (it was touching class discussion material and really promoted thoughtful dialog throughout the students.) Material ranges in appropriateness, some worked great for middle school students while other would be more suitable for more mature audiences!!! Fantastic investment!!! You WILL NOT regret purchasing "Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book for holocaust studies, May 10, 2007

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This review is from: Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology (Paperback)

many many stories of people afflicted by the Holocaust, great source for majoring in Holocaust Studies, take a look at Landau's Holocaust too, good text.

this book is a complation of stories and poems, not a history of the Holocaust

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology, March 10, 2009

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Richard A. Gair "Professor of Holocaust Liter... (Florida) - See all my reviews
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Wonderful book. I use this with a college course I teach "Literature and Multimedia of the Holocaust." Excellent excerpts from larger works as well as some complete works. Variety of memoirs, essays, diaries, poems, commentaries, all sorted by theme. I use this book with Yehuda Bauer's History of the Holocaust. Students first read the chapter in Bauer's book on a topic such as life in the Warsaw Ghetto or in the camps. They then read the literary pieces in this anthology that follow the same theme. In this way they first get the historical foundation and then the personal, literary side of the same topic, written by people close to the horrors. The book truly "puts a face on the Holocaust" which is essential if Holocaust education is to accomplish it's goal. I have used this book for many semesters and highly recommend it.

Richard A. Gair, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida