When the veil was rent in twain: Auschwitz, the Auschwitz protocols, and the 'Shoah' testimony of Rudolf Vrba
TitleWhen the veil was rent in twain: Auschwitz, the Auschwitz protocols, and the 'Shoah' testimony of Rudolf Vrba
Author
Call number940.531809439/0039
Object number08134e
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States, Boulder, Colorado, United States
PublisherRosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduate Center/City University of New York, Social Science Monographs, Columbia University Press
Year of publication
2011
Physical descriptionpp121-151
MaterialArticle
Series titleEast European monographs ; no. 785.
ISBN9780880336888
NotesArticle from the book 'The Auschwitz reports and the Holocaust in Hungary' pp121-151
Description
An analytical overview of the tension that existed between the significance of Vrba's escape and the impact of the report on the operation of the death camp. Analyzes the reality of Auschwitz as remembered in Holocaust memoirs, historiography, literature and the arts
