The Shadow and the Flame: A Story of Loss, Survival, and the Making of Holocaust Memory

An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.

In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. Stunned by grief, survivors faced the task of not only forging new lives but also of shaping how this unprecedented cataclysm, an event that did not yet have a name, might be remembered by generations to come. Over time, what they built was ...