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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... Nazi genocide and modern society's enslavement and 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 ...
... Nazi era that imbued them with this excessive protectiveness . I eventually came to learn that my father had once had two young daugh- ters and a wife , who were murdered as he watched , shortly before he himself was deported to a ...
... Nazis for six years . Her story moved me deeply , so I took courses and read extensively to learn more . Yuri Suhl , author of They Fought Back : The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe , and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO ...
... Nazi " way we treat animals . The first two parts of the book ( Chapters 1-5 ) put the issue in historical perspective , while the last part ( Chapters 6—8 ) pro- files people — Jewish and German — whose animal advocacy has been , at ...
... Ernst Haeckel ( 1834—1919 ) , whose ideas had a strong influence on Nazi ideology , maintained that since non - European races are " psychologically nearer to the mammals ( apes and dogs ) than to civilized ETERNAL TREBLINKA 25.
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 |