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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... Indian slaves on the face , using a new set of letters each time the slave was sold to a new owner , so that some slaves had so many marks , in addition to the royal brand , that their faces were covered with letters . 5 2 In the 1800s ...
... Indian outcasts ) , " only meaner and more filthy . " His conclusion was that " if there is any medium between a Rational animal and a Beast , the Hotantot lays fairest claim to the Species . " 7 In the 1600s and 1700s there were many ...
... Indians below whites , and blacks below everybody else , close to the animals . " The brain of the Bushman leads towards the brain of the Simiadae ( monkeys ) , " wrote Sir Charles Lyell ( 1797-1875 ) , the founder of mod- ern geology ...
... Indians , which he used to measure brain size and rank human races . In his three major published works on human skulls , Morton ranked the races hier- archically , with whites on top , Indians in the middle , and blacks at the bottom ...
... inside " that a stream of blood was running , as if a great number of cows had perished . " " They forced the Indian survivors of their massacres to carry cargo like " beasts of burden 32 WOLVES , APES , PIGS , RATS , VERMIN.
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 |