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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... For a long time it never occurred to me to challenge or even question the practice or the attitude behind it . The late AIDS and animal activist Steven Simmons described the attitude : " Animals are innocent casualties of the XV PREFACE.
... described at the beginning of the chap- ter . The relationship of humans to other beings became what it is today — one of domination , control , and manipulation — with humans making life - or - death decisions concerning what were now ...
... described the miss- ing slaves as wearing fetters when they escaped . Three entries in a 1844 diary read : " Alonzo runaway with his irons on " ( July 17 ) ; " Alonzo came in with his irons off " ( July 30 ) ETERNAL TREBLINKA 15.
... described the people they encountered there as " rude and beastlie " and " like to bruite beasts . " One English voyager complained that he could not make out what the people of Mozambique were saying because they spoke " so ...
... described Africans as " the most degraded of human races , whose form approaches that of the beast . " 11 After the death in Paris of an African woman known as the " Hottentot Venus , " Cuvier wrote that she had a way of pouting her ...
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 |