dilemma of choice in the death camps
TitleThe dilemma of choice in the death camps
Author
Call number940.5318/0107
Object number01980E
Place of publicationPhiladelphia, Pennyslvania, United States
PublisherTemple University Press
Year of publication
1988
Physical descriptionpp118-127
MaterialArticle
ISBN0877225397
NotesArticle from the book "Echoes from the Holocaust" pp118-127
Description
This essay asks whether it makes sense to speak of moral choices in the context of the death camps. Langer challenges the attempts made by some to see the Holocaust asa kind of continuum in man's spiritual history or to equate morality with the resolution to survive.