The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia, Wendy Lower (Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context) (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011), xxv + 177 pp., hardcover 44.95, e-book available
“Every village and town, every forest abounds with graves looming from a distance as a historical lesson and a warning. Once the living witnesses are gone, then those graves will speak volumes. They will accuse the whole world … with an eloquence a hundredfold mightier, of having committed or having...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 480-483 |
| Review of: | The diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press [u.a.], 2011) (Beorn, Waitman)
The diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press [u.a.], 2011) (Beorn, Waitman) |
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| Summary: | “Every village and town, every forest abounds with graves looming from a distance as a historical lesson and a warning. Once the living witnesses are gone, then those graves will speak volumes. They will accuse the whole world … with an eloquence a hundredfold mightier, of having committed or having failed to act against the cruelest of crimes” (p. 92)., With these words, the Jewish diarist Samuel Golfard ended his entry of April 11, 1943. Sometime shortly after, he died in a hail of bullets after trying to shoot a German SS officer. Despite his own statement, Golfard's diary speaks with far more eloquence than he perhaps gives himself credit for. Only rarely are we historians the beneficiaries of valuable source materials that serendipitously find their way to us, rather than the reverse. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs064 |