ePub The Sacred Place: The Ancient Origin of Holy and Mystical Sites by Paul Devereux in History

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A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps; Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creation; archival footage; or visual documentation of the events; filmmaker Claude Lanzmann relied on the words of witnesses—Jewish; Polish; and German—to describe in ruthless detail the bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution; so that the remote experiences of the Holocaust became fresh and immediate. This book presents in an accessible and vivid format the testimony of survivors; participants; witnesses; and scholars. This tenth anniversary edition; published on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the camps; is newly revised and corrected in order to more accurately present the actual testimony of those interviewed. Shoah is an unparalleled oral history of the Holocaust; an intensely readable journey through the twentieth century's greatest horror.