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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... America ... 53 4. Improving the Herd From Animal Breeding to Genocide .. 81 5. Without the Homage of a Tear Killing Centers in America and Germany . 109 Part III Holocaust Echoes 137 6. We Were Like That Too Holocaust - Connected Animal ...
... American culture that Hitler often cited as exemplary , the book details American support for human eugen- ics and forced sterilization and the role that their advocates played in con- tributing to the the Final Solution . This ...
... American rancher Herb Silverman describes what happens : " I hate castrating them . It's really horrible . After you put the ring on its scrotum , the calf will lie down and kick and wring its tail for half an hour or more , before the ...
... American experiment that many Americans defended as necessary to subdue and restrain a lecherous and barbarian people.49 " Castration of blacks clearly indicated a need in white men to persuade themselves that they were really masters ...
Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust Charles Patterson. the American South , branding was used to punish ... America when runaway slaves were returned , their masters branded them on their shoulders . However , when the slave ...
Contents
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MASTER SPECIES MASTER RACE | 51 |
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SLAUGHTER The Road to Auschwitz Through America | 53 |
IMPROVING THE HERD From Animal Breeding to Genocide | 81 |
WITHOUT THE HOMAGE OF A TEAR Killing Centers in America and Germany | 109 |
HOLOCAUST ECHOES | 137 |
WE WERE LIKE THAT TOO HolocaustConnected Animal Advocates | 139 |
THIS BOUNDLESS SLAUGHTERHOUSE The Compassionate Vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 169 |
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOLOCAUST German Voices for the Voiceless | 201 |
AFTERWORD | 231 |
NOTES | 233 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 271 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 281 |
INDEX | 283 |
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A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann Matthias Beier Limited preview - 2006 |
The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities Karen Davis No preview available - 2005 |