One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust [Hardcover]

Judith Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1990

Six million Jews died in Europe, and the Holocaust lives on in the minds of those individuals who survived the worst genocide the world has ever known. One, by One, by One is a masterwork--a stark and haunting exploration of how people rationalize history, how rationalization gives birth to lies, how the victims are blamed, and history's horrors are forgotten. "A tenacious quest for remembrance, for the content of concealed memory".--The New York Times.

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In a first-class piece of investigative reporting, Miller, a New York Times editor, explores how people in six countries preserve or distort memories of the Holocaust. In Germany, she found a young generation undertaking a shamed, angry reckoning with the Nazi past. Austrians, who were Hitler's first enthusiastic allies, now paint themselves as his first victims. The Netherlands' wartime record with respect to Jews is "in many respects appalling," Miller observes in a chapter on that country (whose "unofficial patron saint" is Anne Frank) that will stun readers. In France Miller attended the trial of Nazi Klaus Barbie, a drama that generated slight interest among the French, who prefer to keep alive the myth of a glorious Resistance. In the Soviet Union, she discovered that the Holocaust is not officially recognized, even though invading Germans exterminated some 700,000 Soviet Jews. This shocking survey is itself an act of remembrance.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 319 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition (April 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671644726
• ISBN-13: 978-0671644727
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,375,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holocaust Classic--Worth Finding, November 21, 2005

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Dr. Victor S. Alpher (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One, By One, By One: The Landmark Exploration of the Holocaust and the Uses of Memory (Paperback)

When Judith Miller's classic was published, I'll admit I had other things pressing besides the Holocaust.

However, this book is a classic, and should be read by anyone interested in the Holocaust, Shoah, SS, World War II, Jewish history and culture. It documents, country by country, complicity of many nations besides Germany and the Third Reich in the Holocaust. It is well documented and not difficult reading.

I went back to Ms. Miller's book after seeing an exhibition in Berlin at the German History Museum entitled "Myths of the Nations"--that is, the myths developed in many of these countries of ways in which they supposedly helped Jews, or did not participate in the Holocaust. In other words, 60 years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust is not an historical issue, it has currency--not only for the Jewish victims, but also for the political prisoners, POWs sent to slave labor camps (see, e.g., the PBS Documentary "Berga").

This book is as hot today as it was the day it was published--and I highly recommend it for the reasons above.

5.0 out of 5 stars Important Book, June 19, 2011

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Joseph Friedman "Joe Friedman" (Sherman Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust (Hardcover)

The title says it all - the holocaust wasn't the murder of six million - it was the murder of six million (actually 12 million) ONE PLUS ONE , PLUS ONE, PLUS ONE, ETC.

Great job by the author in examining the post war position of important countries who were "players" in this disaster.