Helpful Score: 1
Like another reviewer said, this is very well put together. I don't think many people would really be interested in this specific book unless they already had an intense, a very intense, interest in the Holocaust in general. Readers who devour anything on the subject and/or who are interested in actual pictures, posters, decrees, etc. from the time period will get the most from this I think.
I'm extremely thrilled to own this and it won't be leaving my collection. I was amazed at most of the posters, the wording in the posters and other documents, and with hindsight just that these were actually looked up as they were.
There are some pretty graphic pictures and even the pictures that maybe can't be called "graphic" are still brutal because one knows what was going on. When I first opened the book I flipped right to a page with a picture of an empty gas chamber room and it was such a harsh shock I started crying, something unlike me to say the least. For days I imagined that one room and the people whose lives ended there.
In the front of the book there is a "map" of the death camps and concentration camps in relation to cities which is helpful because it contains some of the lesser known camps along with the ones we've all heard of.
I hope to visit Dachau along with some others in the next year or two. After all of the reading I've done and after all the reading I still will do, it's something I want to do very much.
I'm extremely thrilled to own this and it won't be leaving my collection. I was amazed at most of the posters, the wording in the posters and other documents, and with hindsight just that these were actually looked up as they were.
There are some pretty graphic pictures and even the pictures that maybe can't be called "graphic" are still brutal because one knows what was going on. When I first opened the book I flipped right to a page with a picture of an empty gas chamber room and it was such a harsh shock I started crying, something unlike me to say the least. For days I imagined that one room and the people whose lives ended there.
In the front of the book there is a "map" of the death camps and concentration camps in relation to cities which is helpful because it contains some of the lesser known camps along with the ones we've all heard of.
I hope to visit Dachau along with some others in the next year or two. After all of the reading I've done and after all the reading I still will do, it's something I want to do very much.
