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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... Slaughter The Road to Auschwitz Through 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 ...
... slaughter of non- human animals in unprecedented detail , but for the first time we are presented with extensive evidence of the profoundly troubling connec- tions between animal exploitation in the United States and Hitler's Final ...
... slaughter of animals moves to center stage in the twenty - first century the way the issue of human slav- ery did in America in the nineteenth century — and I think it will — my hope is that this book will be in the thick of the debate ...
... slaughter animals for our r food , force them to perform silly tricks for our delectation , gun them down and stick hooks in them in the name of sport . We have torn up the wild places where once they made their homes . Speciesism is ...
... slaughter of male captives and the enslavement of women and children . Not only were female slaves useful as workers , but they were valuable because they could produce more slaves . Young girls stayed with their mothers in female work ...
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 |