I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness. (CHAIM GINOTT) "Could the Holocaust happen again? Over the years I have often put the question to my young students. And they, consistently, have answered yes, while I said no. I saw it as a unique event that would remain unique. I believed that if mankind had learned anything from it, it was that hate and murder reach beyond the direct participants; he who begins by killing another, in the end will kill his own. I was wrong. What happened once, could happen again. Perhaps I am exaggerating. Perhaps I am over-sensitive. But then I belong to a traumatized generation. We have learned to take threats more seriously than promises." (ELIE WIESEL)
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I kept them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death." (ANNE FRANK)
This landmark collection of eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documents and writings on the Nazi Holocaust provides unparalleled insight into the darkest chapter in human history.
Finally in paperback, with a new foreword and several new essays, CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN? is a comprehensive volume of documents from eyewitnesses, participants and our most eminent writers, journalists and scholars on the Holocaust. Contributors include Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, Primo Levi, Albert Speer, Art Spiegelman, Thomas Keneally, Abraham Foxman, Arthur Koestler, George Orwell-and Adolf Hitler himself.
Included in this edition are recent selections touching upon the horrors in Cambodia, the Wounded Knee massacre, the dilemma posed by Nazi war criminals and a portfolio of artwork by Si Lewen, a Polish artist whose work reflects the pain and inhumanity of the Nazi camps.
