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Arcade Publishing (1996), Edition: 1st, 160 pages
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Captured here with clarity and truth are fifty images of survival, portraits of the men and women who lives through the brutality to triumph over oppression: survivors truly. Their wrenching first-person accounts accompany intimate photographs and tell of experiences with an immediacy that is both mesmerising and appalling.
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Captured here with clarity and truth are fifty images of survival, portraits of the men and women who lived through the brutality of the Holocaust to triumph over oppression; survivors truly.
Never in history has so horrifying an event as the Holocaust taken place--the human loss inconceivable,
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the aftershocks felt for generations. But in the midst of the misery was forged a strength of spirit and humanity that shows in the faces and stories of its survivors.
Mark Seliger's portraits movingly capture these images of survival, and the personal accounts by the men and women themselves convey the power and pain of their brutal experiences. These tales vary--the misery of the day-by-day existence in the death camps, the daily dread of a raid on a hideout, the luxury and guilt associated with posing as a non-Jew--but together they convey a history that cannot, and must not, ever be forgotten.
Highlighting the Holocaust's effect on life today are essays by Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, Eva Fogelman, Yaffa Eliach, Anne Roiphe, Abe Foxman, and Ted Koppel that place the personal narratives in a cultural and historical context. These pieces, together with the images and memories related, grippingly telescope past into present, making Voices of the Holocaust a testimony to human dignity that will live forever. Show Less
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LibraryThing member kthomp25
This oversize book consists of in-your-face photographs of real people who lived through the Holocaust. Most were young at the time and now are past retirement. Many became professionals and live in New York. They tell bits and pieces of their personal stories in an intimate fashion.
LibraryThing member MerryMary
Slightly over-sized, but not a big as a coffee table book. This amazing book features first-person survivors' accounts of the Holocaust. Each account is relatively short, a page or two, usually paired with a portrait of the survivor in close-up black and white. The portraits are stark and unadorned
The stories range from hidden children to concentration camp survivors; from refugees from Europe and Shanghai to those saved by Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg; from those who posed as Catholics to those who posed as nobility. The tone ranges from raw loss and sorrow to quiet acceptance. Truly a vast spectrum with their many fragments of survivor stories woven into an amazing book. Recommended.
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- as are the stories they accompany.The stories range from hidden children to concentration camp survivors; from refugees from Europe and Shanghai to those saved by Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg; from those who posed as Catholics to those who posed as nobility. The tone ranges from raw loss and sorrow to quiet acceptance. Truly a vast spectrum with their many fragments of survivor stories woven into an amazing book. Recommended.
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ISBN
1559703059 / 9781559703055