NOTES
PREFACE
1.
Elie Wiesel in
Alvin Rosenfeld and
Irving Greenberg, eds., Confronting the Holocaust
( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978), 12, 21.
2.
George Steiner, In Bluebeard's Castle ( New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971),
eloquently insists upon confronting "dark places." Quotes from Isaiah Trunk, Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution ( New York: Stein and Day, 1979), 111.
3.
Elie Wiesel in
Rosenfeld and
Greenberg, Confronting the Holocaust, 200.
4.
Elie Wiesel in
Harry James Cargas, ed., Responses to Elie Wiesel ( New York: Persea, 1978), 15.
5.
Silvano Arieti, The Parnas ( New York: Basic Books, 1979), 85.
6.
K. Feig, The Voyage of the Damned. An Essayed Bibliography ( Portland: University of
Maine, 1974). One can never express enough thanks for Raul Hilberg The Destruction
of the European Jews ( Chicago: Quadrangle, 1967); Lucy Dawidowicz The War
Against the Jews ( New York: Holt, 1975); and Nora Levin The Holocaust ( New York: Schocken, 1973).
7.
Nellie Sachs, O The Chimneys ( New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1967), 59.
PART
ONE
THE BEGINNING
THE BEGINNING
1.
' Olokauston is the Greek translation from the Hebrew Bible of the word for Olah. Quote
from Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor ( New York: Oxford, 1976), 49. See also Gerd Korman
, Hunter and Hunted ( New York: Viking, 1973), 250. One must only apply the
word Holocaust to the mass murder of six million Jews, insists Yehuda Bauer. I agree. In
his book, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective ( Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1978), Bauer warns against using the term for all unfortunate occurrences. The
Jews alone were singled out for total destruction. "For the first time in history, a sentence
of death had been pronounced on anyone guilty of having been born, and born of certain
parents" (p. 32). Hitler intended genocide against the Poles and Russians. But a
difference exists between "forcible, even murderous, denationalization, and wholesale,
total murder of every one of the members of a community" (p. 35). The Holocaust most
closely parallels the Armenian massacre by the Turks. The Turks, however, were neither
total nor logical in their approach, and Armenians in the center of the empire were
allowed to live (p. 37). Bauer says that since World War II there have been several
genocides and some near holocausts, and the victims of both suffer the same (I do not
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Publication information:
Book title: Hitler's Death Camps:The Sanity of Madness.
Contributors: Konnilyn G. Feig - Author.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1981.
Page number: 461.
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