The Years of Extermination
Roger Moorhouse reviews a title on the Holocaust.
The Years of Extermination
Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945
Saul Friedländer
Weidenfeld & Nicholson 870pp £30
ISBN 0 297 81877 9
Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945
Saul Friedländer
Weidenfeld & Nicholson 870pp £30
ISBN 0 297 81877 9
On the first day of June 1942, a fourteen-year-old Polish Jew, Dawid Rubinowicz, was writing his diary. He had been writing for the previous two years, soberly charting the persecution that he, his family and his community was enduring. On that day, he had recorded the arbitrary murder of two Jewish women from his village, who had run into a German patrol. This would be his final entry, however, and it would end, dramatically, mid-sentence. Dawid would perish in Treblinka.
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