Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology

by Elaine C. Stephens, Janet E. Rubin, Jean E. Brown

Book Overview

Images from the Holocaust is an anthology of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and drama that explores and exhumes the Holocaust experience of the victims, the survivors, and those who had the courage to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844259209
• ISBN13: 9780844259208
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology

Wonderful book. I use this with a college course I teach "Literature and Multimedia of the Holocaust." Excellent excerpts from larger works as well as some complete works. Variety of memoirs, essays, diaries, poems, commentaries, all sorted by theme. I use this book with Yehuda Bauer's History of the Holocaust. Students first read the chapter in Bauer's book on a topic such as life in the Warsaw Ghetto or in the camps. They then read the literary pieces in this anthology that follow the same theme. In this way they first get the historical foundation and then the personal, literary side of the same topic, written by people close to the horrors. The book truly "puts a face on the Holocaust" which is essential if Holocaust education is to accomplish it's goal. I have used this book for many semesters and highly recommend it. Richard A. Gair, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida

good book for holocaust studies

many many stories of people afflicted by the Holocaust, great source for majoring in Holocaust Studies, take a look at Landau's Holocaust too, good text. this book is a complation of stories and poems, not a history of the Holocaust

FANTASTIC Teacher Resource!!!!!

I am a middle school English teacher and I purchased the anthology for additional resources for my Anne Frank Unit. The material included in the anthology contains wonderful poetry, memoirs, plays and journal entries from an immense number of sources, from Elie Wiesel to children lost in the Holocaust. The anthology is powerful and moving! The information within the text covers multiple aspects of the Holocaust. I enjoyed the material which brought attention to the guilt individuals who survived the Holocaust experienced after learning their loved ones were lost (it was touching class discussion material and really promoted thoughtful dialog throughout the students.) Material ranges in appropriateness, some worked great for middle school students while other would be more suitable for more mature audiences!!! Fantastic investment!!! You WILL NOT regret purchasing "Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology."