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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... murdered as he watched , shortly before he himself was deported to a series of seven concentration camps , includ- ing Auschwitz - Birkenau . My mother , only an adolescent , and newly married , was torn from family in Budapest in 1944 ...
... murdered , and mutilated the animal peoples . All around us lie the slave camps we have built for our fellow creatures , factory farms and vivisection laboratories , Dachaus and Buchenwalds for the conquered species . We slaughter ...
... murder ? " 17 This so - called " Great Leap Forward " that allowed language - using humans to develop agriculture , use metals , invent writing , and spread themselves over the earth , also allowed them to exploit the earth's " voice ...
... looks at the practice of vilifying people by desig- nating them as animals and how it serves as a prelude to their persecu- tion , exploitation , and murder . CHAPTER TWO WOLVES , APES , PIGS , RATS , 26 THE GREAT DIVIDE.
... murder . It is significant , for example , that in the years leading up to the Armenian genocide , the Ottoman Turks referred to Armenians as rajah ( cattle ) .3 " The use of animal imagery is particularly foreboding , " writes Neil ...
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 |