The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Edition 2

by Michael Berenbaum

Overview

The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.D., honors the six-million Jews and millions of other victims of the Nazis during World War II—a memorial to the past and a living reminder of the moral obligations of societies and individuals. The World Must Know documents the compelling human stories of the Holocaust as told in the Museum's renowned Permanent Exhibition. This second edition is based on the substantive increase in knowledge of the Holocaust over the past dozen years and information from archives that had been inaccessible to researchers until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes of Easten and Central Europe.

This revised edition is enhanced with new insights and updates based on archival information that had been inaccessible to researchers until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist regimes of Eastern and Central Europe. It includes new photographs, redrawn charts, a new section on the Holocaust in Greece, an updated bibliography, and a new foreword by the museum director.

"The World Must Know by Michael Berenbaum is a skillfully organized and clearly told account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled malevolence, six million Jews and millions of innocent others—Protestants, Catholics, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the handicapped, and so many others, adults and children. This important book, a vital guide through the unique corridors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., merits the widest of audiences." —Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen and The Promise

Published on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801883583
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Edition description:	revised edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Berenbaum has served as president of Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, as deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, and as project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors (Bulfinch, 2003).

Table of Contents

From the Museum Director
From the Founding Director
Introduction
I. The Nazi Assault
II. The Holocaust
III. The Last Chapter
Afterword
Bibliographical Note
About the Museum
Acknowledgments
Index

What People are Saying About This

Chaim Potok

The World Must Know is a skillfully organized and clearly told account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled malevolence, six million Jews and millions of innocent others—Protestants, Catholics, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the handicapped, and so many others, adults and children. This important book, a vital guide through the unique corridors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, merits the widest of audiences.

From the Publisher

The World Must Know is a skillfully organized and clearly told account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled malevolence, six million Jews and millions of innocent others—Protestants, Catholics, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the handicapped, and so many others, adults and children. This important book, a vital guide through the unique corridors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, merits the widest of audiences.
—Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen and The Promise

Editorial Reviews

An excellent choice for those who are not well acquainted with the subject or who need a concise synopsis; it will inspire readers to visit the museum and will enhance the experience of those who do.
—Library Journal

Clear and well organized . . . This beautifully produced book is worth considering for purchase in all libraries.
—Paula Rohrlick, Kliatt

A comprehensive coverage from before the war till the arrival of survivors in America . . . The book is excellent.
—Jewish Chronicle

An outstanding memorial propelling its images beyond museum walls.
—California Bookwatch

The photographs scattered throughout The World Must Know are sharp and clear and usually chilling . . . a book worthy of any good library.
—Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News

An excellent introduction to the Holocaust . . . It belongs in all public, academic, school, and synagogue libraries.
—Barbara M. Bibel, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

From the Publisher

A comprehensive coverage from before the war till the arrival of survivors in America . . . The book is excellent.

Jewish Chronicle

An outstanding memorial propelling its images beyond museum walls.

California Bookwatch

The photographs scattered throughout The World Must Know are sharp and clear and usually chilling . . . a book worthy of any good library.

Canadian Jewish News - Sheldon Kirshner

An excellent introduction to the Holocaust . . . It belongs in all public, academic, school, and synagogue libraries.

Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter - Barbara M. Bibel

Clear and well organized . . . This beautifully produced book is worth considering for purchase in all libraries.

Kliatt - Paula Rohrlick

An excellent introduction to the Holocaust... It belongs in all public, academic, school, and synagogue libraries.

— Barbara M. Bibel

Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

The photographs scattered throughout The World Must Know are sharp and clear and usually chilling... a book worthy of any good library.

— Sheldon Kirshner

Canadian Jewish News

To mark the occasion of the April 1993 opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Berenbaum, museum project director, has written a lucid, sweeping, but not superficial historical overview of the Holocaust. Replacing a typical museum catalog, which ordinarily lauds its museum's artifacts, this book uses them to tell the awful story to which the institution is dedicated. Utilizing the museum's photographs, oral histories, and other documents, Berenbaum synthesizes an enormous quantity of material, organizing it coherently to show the gradual evolution of the war against the Jews from the perspectives of the victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, while dealing with the fundamental themes of the Jewish experience. Visually evocative and unsettling, the book, supplemented with a useful bibliography, is an excellent choice for those who are not well acquainted with the subject or who need a concise synopsis; it will inspire readers to visit the museum and will enhance the experience of those who do.-- Benny Kraut, Univ. of Cincinnati

Library Journal

Berenbaum (entomology, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) profiles 99 creatures for the general reader. Emphasis is on insect biology rather than control. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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