Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust [Box set]

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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 Shoup

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Average customer rating: ESSENTIAL, HISTORIC AND HONORABLE An astounding journey

Voices of the Shoah: Remembrances of the Holocaust Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Interviews | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Comedy & Spoken Word | Box Sets | Stores | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ASIN: B00004R5Z2 Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

1. Introduction: Voices Of The Shoah
2. Introduction: Prologue
3. Life Before The Shoah: Memories Of Youth
4. Life Before The Shoah: Singing At The Sabbath Table
5. Life Before The Shoah: Education: 'The Only Thing Nobody Will Take Away, Not Even Hitler-Nobody'
6. Life Before The Shoah: Before World War II, Auschwitz Was A Jewish Town
7. Life Before The Shoah: 'And To Look At Us, You Wouldn't Have Believed Anything Was Happening'
8. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
9. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Anti-Semitism: 'We Were Second-Class Citizens'
10. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
11. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: 'My Mother Took Me To Hitler's Birthday Parade'
12. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Invitations To The Official Balls: 'We Would Prefer...
13. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: 'You'll Never Get Rich, And You'll Never Starve'
14. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Suspicions Grow: 'You Could Smell The War Around Us'
15. Anti-Semitism And Hitler's Rise To Power: Narration
16. Efforts To Escape: Getting Out: Escape!
17. Efforts To Escape: 'Why Didn't You Leave?'
18. Efforts To Escape: Narration
19. At War: 'We Wake Up And There Is Bombarding The Whole City'
20. At War: 'Orders Came Out That All Jews Have To Wear White Arm Bands'
21. At War: 'He Took Us To The Border And Handed Us Over To The Germans'
22. At War: Being Arrested, Taken To Camp: 'We Were Not People Anymore'
23. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'Rumors Were Going That They're Going To Build A...
24. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: The Ghetto Is Built
25. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'Why Do They Want To Destroy This Very Beautiful...
26. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'I Thought We Were Coming Here To Work'
27. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: Life In The Ghetto: 'The War Will End Very...
28. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'They're Liquidating The Ghetto'
29. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'The Day That They Killed All The Children'
30. Life In The Ghettos And Mass Executions Of Jews: 'We Fought To Keep Our Sanity'
31. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'What Should We Do With Grandma?'
32. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'Give Away The Baby, And She Has A Chance To Live'
33. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Auschwitz: 'They Start Separating Women From Men, The...
34. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'I Did Not Know That There Were Crematoriums In Auschwitz...
35. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'I Closed My Eyes, And I Made A Vow, That Whatever They're...
36. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Digging The Trenches
37. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: 'We Always Were Prepared To Accept Something Cruel'
38. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: Singing In The Fields Of The Camps
39. Deportation To Labor And Death Camps: The 'Selections'

Tracks:

1. Resistance: Narration
2. Resistance: Resistance In The Shoah
3. Resistance: 'Already By The Second Day We Had An Organized Sabotage Group'
4. Resistance: Partisan Fighters In The Forest
5. Resistance: Religious Observance In The Camps
6. Resistance: 'She Rubbed My Hands And Said, Fight It, Fight It!'
7. Death Marches And Liberation: Narration
8. Death Marches And Liberation: Allied Forces Are Coming: Evacuation And The Death Marches
9. Death Marches And Liberation: 'Why Waste A Bullet? Let Them Freeze To Death'
10. Death Marches And Liberation: The Germans: 'They Are Human. Take A Look. They're Afraid'
11. Death Marches And Liberation: 'We Were Crying Because We Really Couldn't Believe It We Were Free'
12. Death Marches And Liberation: Rescuers Appear: 'My Child, What's Wrong With You?'
13. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: 'I Couldn't Adopt The Same Approach To Them...
14. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: 'I'm Going To Marry This Girl'
15. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: In The Hospital
16. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Narration
17. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Two Thirds Of European Jews Killed In The...
18. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: Postwar Murders: 'Pogrom'
19. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: A Witness At The Sachsenhausen Trial, The...
20. Postwar Sickness And Recovery: Looking For A Future: My Beautiful Revenge: 'I Knew I Was Free'
21. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: Narration
22. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: Survivors Leave Their Birthplaces For...
23. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'We're Still Looking For A Familiar Face'
24. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'In Poland, I Would Have Nothing'
25. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'Can This Happen Ever Again? Yes. Not...
26. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'Nightmares, Dreams-I Never Do Because...
27. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'How Come You Survived While So Many...
28. A New Life In America And A Survivor's Philosophy Of War: 'This Is Like A Special Given Time'
29. Conclusion: Narration: The Human Total
30. Conclusion: Narration: Introduction To Discs 3 & 4

Tracks:

1. Kindertransport: Saving The Children: Narration
2. Kindertransport: Saving The Children: Jewish Children Rescued By The English
3. Kindertransport: Saving The Children: 'I Don't Think I Did Say Good-bye'
4. Kindertransport: Saving The Children: 'Not Speaking Any Of English Apart From Yes And No'
5. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: Narration
6. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: A Soldier's Story: First-Hand Witness At...
7. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'We Came Through A Picturesque, Picture...
8. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'I Did Not Speak Of Any Of This For More...
9. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'One Of The Maybe Two Or Three Times In...
10. An American-Jewish Soldier At The Liberation Of Dachau: 'It Could Happen Unless We Watch Out For It'
11. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: Narration
12. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: Drafted To Fight
13. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: The Dachau Atrocities-'Nobody Told...
14. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'Why Did They Have To Kill These...
15. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'But Until I Saw All That, I Wasn't...
16. Two Japanese-American Soldiers Witness The Horrors Of Dachau: 'It Just Proved To Me, Basically...
17. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
18. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: One Man Who Made A Difference
19. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'Do You Know My Uncle In Toledo?'
20. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Collecting Survivors' Names
21. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
22. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'If There Are No Jews, Colonel...
23. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
24. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'We Are Americans. We Don't...
25. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'Record It As The First...
26. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
27. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: 'For The First Time, The...
28. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration
29. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Rabbi Klausner's Plans Continue
30. An American Military Rabbi Brings Hope To Newly Freed Survivors: Narration

Tracks:

1. Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: Narration
2. Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: The Professions Most Respected: Studying...
3. Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: Racial Purity And Euthanasia
4. Inheriting The Shoah: Living With The Knowledge Of Evil: 'There Are Life Lessons'
5. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
6. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: A Childhood Of Concealment: Earliest Memories
7. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
8. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Why Didn't The Jews Leave?
9. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'It's Under The Apartment House. There's A Space In The...
10. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'She Gives Them A Ring In Exchange For One Week Of...
11. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Escaping The Ghetto
12. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: The Farmhouse
13. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Mr. Mustache Comes To Our House
14. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: Narration
15. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: New Freedom In The United States
16. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: The United Nations Vote On The Reestablishment Of Israel
17. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'And One Day I Had A Fight With God'
18. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'I Went Back To Poland, And I Was Looking For Closure'
19. One Girl's Story: A Childhood In Hiding: 'Teaching My Children To Be Positive, Hoping That...
20. 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 Shoup

Customer Reviews:

ESSENTIAL, HISTORIC AND HONORABLE.......2003-01-01

Simply said, this is one of the most important collections to ever emerge on the spoken word scene -- the first, and only comprehensive audio documentary of the Holocaust, as told by survivors and witnesses. The four CDs feature first-person accounts (drawn from more than 180 interviews recorded between 1988 and 1998), traditional music of the era and solid narration by Elliott Gould. An accompanying 100-page hard-bound book includes complete transcripts, historical (and often disturbing) photos and suggested activities and questions for parents and teachers to use to help explain the horror and its repercussions to children. Rhino must be commended for donating a generous 12% of royalties from the sales of each set to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. An essential to everyone's library.

An astounding journey.......2000-09-07

Most material on the Holocaust is depressing, sad, dark, and not something that I find myself jumping up and down to purchase. But because I am a historian I usually buy the material because of work-related reasons. This package, Voices of the Shoah, was different than anything I have ever seen or heard relating to the Shoah. It moved me, it inspired me, and it allowed me to safely transport my thoughts and imagination back to Jewish life before WWII. Thank you so much for making an amazing piece. Plus the book is beautiful too.

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