Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the HolocaustThis book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book (Chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part (Chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times. The last part of the book (Chapters 6-8) profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself. The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her foreword, the Preface and Afterword, excerpts from the book, chapter synopses, and an international list of supporters can be found on the book's website at: www.powerfulbook.com |
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... Auschwitz and saw a scale model of one of the four crematoria , she realized " they were actually giant processing plants- except that instead of processing pigs they processed people who had been defined as pigs . " 117 As her study of ...
... Auschwitz Through America his second part of the book ( Chapters 3-5 ) examines the This way came entwined in modern times and how American eugenics and assem- bly - line slaughter crossed the Atlantic Ocean and found fertile soil in ...
... Auschwitz in its early days were not fed along the way , but instead were led into near- by fields and told to " graze " like cattle on everything that was edible . Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum , eds . , Anatomy of the Auschwitz ...
Contents
The Great Divide Human Supremacy and the Exploitation of Animals | 3 |
Wolves Apes Pigs Rats Vermin Vilifying Others as Animals | 27 |
Master Species Master Race | 51 |
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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust Charles Patterson Limited preview - 2002 |
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