holocaust

It’s hardly your typical history textbook, but it’s getting the attention its story deserves. Children in Germany are studying the Holocaust by way of a comic book—Die Suche—an approach designed to make the story more real to them and to counter the myths, prejudices and misunderstandings about the Third Reich.

Katrin Himmler, great-niece to Heinrich, writes about personal family history that, she says, is shrouded in myth for most families of the Nazi era. In discovering that Heinrich was greatly admired and respected by her family, she uncovered a gap between official and family history that sees people acknowledging the Nazi horrors while clinging to their own personal historical myths.

This book tells the story, from the title character's own memories, of an Italian-American girl who was taken as a political prisoner and interred in the horrific concentration camps of WWII.
Elsie endured the horrors that we read about in our history books, as an American and a Christian. She was only known by her tattoed number. She starved, she prayed and she survived.

Another tale of a Holocaust survivor’s nightmare is brought back into print to help sate the demand for such stories. The world just can’t get enough of this stuff.

Don't read the Holocaust into everything he wrote.

It happens often enough. The author of a small shelf of forgotten novels strikes gold with a best seller, prompting publishers to reissue his or her earlier books, which, behold, suddenly also do well.