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Reading the Holocaust

Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view. She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexed issue of 'resistance' in the camps, and strategies for u...

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Main Author: Clendinnen, Inga
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge [England] Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1999.
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