Narrated by Elliot Gould, this four-CD set is almost exclusively comprised of the voices of Holocaust survivors. As they tell their stories, the nightmare of the Shoah-the attempted annihilation of all Jews in Europe-unfolds as a living memory of one of mankind's most horrific periods. All these stories are first-hand accounts of Jews from this period. Some, of course, were very young at the time, but many were adults living a "normal" life before the Nazis imposed their will. They are true witnesses, and in various voices--some measured and calm, some choking with emotion--they tell their stories. We are taken from the time before the war when life was relatively idyllic, through the persecution and eradication of Jews, to the re-establishment of Israel as a permanent Jewish state. There are far too many stark and dramatic anecdotes to single one out, but to hear an American soldier, the only Jew in his company, describing the sight of railroad cars full of skeletons-the only sign of life being a few eyes moving-makes abundantly clear the absolute horror of the Holocaust. For these survivors, the Shoah is not merely history, but an unforgettable, permanent part of their beings. Through their remarkable voices, we are reminded that this evil was in fact witnessed, and with powerful documents like this, should never be forgotten. Rhino Records should be commended for this project and for understanding that the deep eloquence of a single human voice can serve as the most powerful testimony of all. --Wally Shoup
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ASIN: B00004R5Z2 Release Date: 2000-03-14 |
Tracks:
- Introduction: Voices Of The Shoah
- Introduction: Prologue
- Life Before The Shoah: Memories Of Youth
- Life Before The Shoah: Singing At The Sabbath Table
- Life Before The Shoah: Education: 'The Only Thing Nobody Will Take Away, Not Even Hitler-Nobody'
- Life Before The Shoah: Before World War II, Auschwitz Was A Jewish Town
- Life Before The Shoah: 'And To Look At Us, You Wouldn't Have Believed Anything Was Happening'
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Anti-Semitism: 'We Were Second-Class Citizens'
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: 'My Mother Took Me To Hitler's Birthday Parade'
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Invitations To The Official Balls: 'We Would Prefer...
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: 'You'll Never Get Rich, And You'll Never Starve'
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Suspicions Grow: 'You Could Smell The War Around Us'
- Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
- Efforts To Escape: Getting Out: Escape!
- Efforts To Escape: 'Why Didn't You Leave?'
- Efforts To Escape: Narration
- At War: 'We Wake Up And There Is Bombarding The Whole City'
- At War: 'Orders Came Out That All Jews Have To Wear White Arm Bands'
- At War: 'He Took Us To The Border And Handed Us Over To The Germans'
- At War: Being Arrested, Taken To Camp: 'We Were Not People Anymore'
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'Rumors Were Going That They're Going To Build A...
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: The Ghetto Is Built
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'Why Do They Want To Destroy This Very Beautiful...
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'I Thought We Were Coming Here To Work'
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: Life In The Ghetto: 'The War Will End Very...
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'They're Liquidating The Ghetto'
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'The Day That They Killed All The Children'
- Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'We Fought To Keep Our Sanity'
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'What Should We Do With Grandma?'
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'Give Away The Baby, And She Has A Chance To Live'
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Auschwitz: 'They Start Separating Women From Men, The...
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'I Did Not Know That There Were Crematoriums In Auschwitz...
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'I Closed My Eyes, And I Made A Vow, That Whatever They're...
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Digging The Trenches
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'We Always Were Prepared To Accept Something Cruel'
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Singing In The Fields Of The Camps
- Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: The 'Selections'
Tracks:
- Resistance: Narration
- Resistance: Resistance In The Shoah
- Resistance: 'Already By The Second Day We Had An Organized Sabotage Group'
- Resistance: Partisan Fighters In The Forest
- Resistance: Religious Observance In The Camps
- Resistance: 'She Rubbed My Hands And Said, Fight It, Fight It!'
- Death Marches And Liberation: Narration
- Death Marches And Liberation: Allied Forces Are Coming: Evacuation And The Death Marches
- Death Marches And Liberation: 'Why Waste A Bullet? Let Them Freeze To Death'
- Death Marches And Liberation: The Germans: 'They Are Human. Take A Look. They're Afraid'
- Death Marches And Liberation: 'We Were Crying Because We Really Couldn't Believe It We Were Free'
- Death Marches And Liberation: Rescuers Appear: 'My Child, What's Wrong With You?'
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: 'I Couldn't Adopt The Same Approach To Them...
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: 'I'm Going To Marry This Girl'
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: In The Hospital
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Narration
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Two Thirds Of European Jews Killed In The...
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Postwar Murders: 'Pogrom'
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: A Witness At The Sachsenhausen Trial, The...
- Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: My Beautiful Revenge: 'I Knew I Was Free'
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: Narration
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: Survivors Leave Their Birthplaces For...
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'We're Still Looking For A Familiar Face'
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'In Poland, I Would Have Nothing'
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'Can This Happen Ever Again? Yes. Not...
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'Nightmares, Dreams-I Never Do Because...
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'How Come You Survived While So Many...
- A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'This Is Like A Special Given Time'
- Conclusion: Narration: The Human Total
- Conclusion: Narration: Introduction To Discs 3 & 4
Tracks:
- Kindertransport: Saving The Children: Narration
- Kindertransport: Saving The Children: Jewish Children Rescued By The English
- Kindertransport: Saving The Children: 'I Don't Think I Did Say Good-bye'
- Kindertransport: Saving The Children: 'Not Speaking Any Of English Apart From Yes And No'
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: Narration
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: A Soldier's Story: First-Hand Witness At...
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'We Came Through A Picturesque, Picture...
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'I Did Not Speak Of Any Of This For More...
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'One Of The Maybe Two Or Three Times In...
- An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'It Could Happen Unless We Watch Out For It'
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: Narration
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: Drafted To Fight
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: The Dachau Atrocities-'Nobody Told...
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'Why Did They Have To Kill These...
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'But Until I Saw All That, I Wasn't...
- Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'It Just Proved To Me, Basically...
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: One Man Who Made A Difference
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'Do You Know My Uncle In Toledo?'
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Collecting Survivors' Names
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'If There Are No Jews, Colonel...
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'We Are Americans. We Don't...
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'Record It As The First...
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'For The First Time, The...
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Rabbi Klausner's Plans Continue
- An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
Tracks:
- Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: Narration
- Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: The Professions Most Respected: Studying...
- Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: Racial Purity And Euthanasia
- Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: 'There Are Life Lessons'
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: A Childhood Of Concealment: Earliest Memories
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Why Didn't The Jews Leave?
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'It's Under The Apartment House. There's A Space In The...
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'She Gives Them A Ring In Exchange For One Week Of...
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Escaping The Ghetto
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: The Farmhouse
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Mr. Mustache Comes To Our House
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: New Freedom In The United States
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: The United Nations Vote On The Reestablishment Of Israel
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'And One Day I Had A Fight With God'
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'I Went Back To Poland, And I Was Looking For Closure'
- One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'Teaching My Children To Be Positive, Hoping That...
- Epilogue: Voices Of The Shoah: Epilogue
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Narrated by Elliot Gould, this four-CD set is almost exclusively comprised of the voices of Holocaust survivors. As they tell their stories, the nightmare of the Shoah-the attempted annihilation of all Jews in Europe-unfolds as a living memory of one of mankind's most horrific periods. All these stories are first-hand accounts of Jews from this period. Some, of course, were very young at the time, but many were adults living a "normal" life before the Nazis imposed their will. They are true witnesses, and in various voices--some measured and calm, some choking with emotion--they tell their stories. We are taken from the time before the war when life was relatively idyllic, through the persecution and eradication of Jews, to the re-establishment of Israel as a permanent Jewish state. There are far too many stark and dramatic anecdotes to single one out, but to hear an American soldier, the only Jew in his company, describing the sight of railroad cars full of skeletons-the only sign of life being a few eyes moving-makes abundantly clear the absolute horror of the Holocaust. For these survivors, the Shoah is not merely history, but an unforgettable, permanent part of their beings. Through their remarkable voices, we are reminded that this evil was in fact witnessed, and with powerful documents like this, should never be forgotten. Rhino Records should be commended for this project and for understanding that the deep eloquence of a single human voice can serve as the most powerful testimony of all. --Wally ShoupCustomer Reviews:
ESSENTIAL, HISTORIC AND HONORABLE.......2003-01-01
An astounding journey.......2000-09-07
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