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A telling perspective on this tragic event
- Sales Rank: #3523315 in Books
- Published on: 1978
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
but the recipient loved
By Peter Burch
It was a gift and I haven't read it; but the recipient loved it
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I read this when I was 13 years old and I have never forgotten it
By Lorrie
This story is very much a powerful and thought-provoking read.
Yes, it is primarily centered on the lives of two men, a Jewish young man by the name of Rudi Weiss, the artist, who's the son of a prominent doctor and also it's tells of a up-and-coming young lawyer, named Eric Dorff.
The things that these two men have in common is that both are living in Germany during the time when the NAZI Party is on the rise. They are both quiet, shy, sort of retiring men but strong-willed. And both seem to be the type that are followers, meaning that they will "go with the crowd" or the majority.
So, Rudi is sent to a concentration camp and Eric goes on to become a SS officer.
However, in the novel horrific details of HITLER's hatred. Things I read and can never forget are that Jews were strung on line and water hoses were put in their mouths on full blast until their stomachs burst!
This book is not for the faint of heart and I read as part of list of classics to read in 8th Grade for extracurricular reading. (The list included things like IF Beale Street Could Talk, and Gone With the Wind, etc.)
The story moves you because you see the men and their families but you get wider look at how the entire country is also reacting to the events in this new war.
It's an interesting look at how war really does not change the hearts of men or make them want peace. WARRING FOR PEACE, truly is an oxymoron and does not make sense, although that is not the main point of this novel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Like the Old Adage Says "The Book is Often Better Than the Movie"
By LactivistAnti-VaccineLiberal
First off, even before I read Holocaust, I had already seen the Holocaust miniseries that this book is based on -- though I did not even know that there was a book until very recently.
Because the Holocaust miniseries aired on TV before I was even born, it wasn't until it was shown again on The History Channel sometime in the late 90s that I saw it for the first time. At that time, I was very disappointed by the lack of closure for the characters at the end of the movie. But because I'd seen it on TV, in what I assumed was syndication, I just thought that some of the scenes had been cut in order to make room for more commercials and that I'd get to see those scenes when it was released on home video (or later on, on DVD or Blu-Ray). But several years later, when the movie was finally released on DVD, and I bought one, I saw that the ending of the movie was still just as abrupt as the version I saw on TV, and was hugely disappointed to read that the DVD "may be edited from its original network version". Since I wasn't even born yet, when the network version aired, I never got to see that version, so I had no way of knowing what scenes had been cut (and were missing) from the DVD version -- and even though I got an official VHS set that said it was the original full-length version of the movie, the ending was still the same as both the TV version I saw as well as the DVD set. So wanting to find out if there was anymore information about the movie and characters, I started searching online, and after a bit of Googling, I found out that there was a BOOK by Gerald Green about this movie. So I immediately bought this book (for $1.95 on eBay) and I'm so glad I did, because after reading it, I was finally able to find out the ultimate fate of the main/surviving characters and get relative closure to the story.
I have been extremely interested in the subject/era of the Holocaust ever since I was around 9 years old, and I saw some of the concentration-camp scenes in War and Remembrance which had a profound effect on me. Although it gave me terrible nightmares for awhile (as did reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning which I'd read some passages of around that same time) it sparked a very deep & lifelong interest (some family members have even called it an "obsession") in the Holocaust.
From the "blurb" on the back of the book:
A Story of Love, of Hatred, of Death, of Heroism and Survival. A Story Beyond Tears of Two Families in World War II.
The searing saga of the Dorf family and the family Weiss -- one swept up in a frenzy of murderous rage, the other, anguished victims.
ERIK DORF: His diary reveals a charming, brilliant young German lawyer, the SS officer so consumed with love for his country and Führer -- and so aflame with ambition -- that he can justify plans for the mass murder of Jews.
RUDI WEISS: His story exposes a spectacularly fearless young Jew, a man so tough, so brave, he rushes into love and defies death in a world ablaze with terrifying passions.
HOLOCAUST -- A NOVEL OF SURVIVAL AND TRIUMPH
Holocaust by Gerald Green is the harrowing & heartbreaking story of two German families from Berlin, prior to, and during World War II -- one a Christian family who become Nazis out of economic necessity, and eventually become bloodthirsty, remorseless mass murderers, and the other, a Jewish family who become their victims, and whose lives are gradually but systematically destroyed in the diabolically evil genocide known as the "Shoah, or more commonly called the HOLOCAUST.
** POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!! **
The "Aryan" Dorf family, is headed by Erik, a charming & brilliant, yet unemployed German lawyer who struggles to to find work to support his wife and two young children, Peter and Laura. At the insistence of sickly (but yet, still extremely ambitious-for-her-husband) wife, Marta, Erik joins the Nazi Party out of sheer desperation to earn income, but then rapidly advances within the SS, and in a short time, becomes essentially the "right-hand man" for Reinhard Heydrich, a top-level Nazi and one of the engineers of the "Final Solution". As Erik rises up the ranks, and is constantly bombarded with & brainwashed by Nazi ideology, he is soon transformed from someone who, in the beginning, had little to no interest in politics, and is such a meek, mild-mannered & gentle man, that seems the type unable to harm even a fly and becomes a ruthless cold-blooded killer who's main & primary concern is career advancement, and loyalty to "the Fatherland" & the Führer. Encouraged by Marta, who is insanely obsessed with her husband's ambition (and at least in the beginning, his lack thereof!) and career advancement to the exclusion of nearly everything else, Erik abandons all morals, empathy, values & ethics, and is able to not only justify but order and even actively participate in the slaughter of millions.
The other family is the Jewish, and at least in the beginning, the middle to upper-class Weiss family, headed by Dr. Josef Weiss, a Polish-born & raised, general physician, and his cultured, aristocratic, and usually domineering German-born & raised wife, Berta, who came from a "Hoch-Deutsch" family, whose ancestors were ethnic German "court Jews" and friends of princes & cardinals. Together, Josef & Berta have three children -- and in the beginning of the book, they are twenty-one year-old artist, Karl (who in the first chapter, marries a young Christian "Aryan" girl, named Inga Helms), seventeen year-old athlete & star soccer player Rudi, and thirteen year-old Anna.
Holocaust is written from the perspective of one character from each of these 2 families -- in the Dorf family storyline, its written from the POV (point of view) of Erik, told through his diaries & notes, and in the Weiss family storyline, its written from the POV of younger son & middle child Rudi, who tells the story of himself and his family (usually in flashbacks, as he chronicles the his family's history and tries to trace their ultimate fate, living on a kibbutz in Israel after the war) and their lives before & during the Holocaust, and how, one by one, every single member of his family is murdered (or in the case of his maternal grandparents, driven to suicide) by the Nazis. The book opens with a Prologue chapter set in November 1952 at Kibbutz Agam in Israel. In the Prologue, Rudi briefly describes his current life, including living on the kibbutz with his Israel-born sabra wife, Tamar, and his two sons, Hanan & Ari, ages five & four, while working as the athletic director at the local high school. He talks about his concerted efforts to search for information about his murdered family, talking to numerous Holocaust survivors, and corresponding with many people who knew his parents, brother, and uncle. Rudi then tells how, during his search he discovered that "in one of those crazy coincidences with which those dreadful years are filled", that the SS Major Erik Dorf and his wife had at one time been patients of his late father, Dr. Josef Weiss in Berlin -- and just three years after Dr. Weiss had cared for Erik & Marta Dorf, that the same Erik Dorf was signing orders and instituting Nazi policies that would lead to the slaughter of Dr. Weiss and the rest of the family (with of course, the exception of Rudi). The first chapter of this book begins with Rudi's story set in August 1935 in Berlin, at the wedding between Karl and Inga, who are both 21 years old. Whereas, in Erik Dorf's storyline, it starts in September 1935 with the unemployed Erik and his ill wife Marta, going to see Dr. Josef Weiss, who diagnoses a systolic heart murmur, and discovering that Dr. Weiss had also treated Erik Dorf's parents, as well as Erik during his childhood, decades earlier. Later, unable to find decent employment, and struggling to support his family, at the insistence of his wife, Erik interviews with Reinhard Heydrich for a job in the Nazi Party and as the old saying goes, "the rest is history!"
With the exception of the prologue set in 1952, the first part of the first chapter which is set in 1935, and 2 letters that Rudi received in 1950, that were included towards the end of the book (letters that Rudi received from a US Army Intelligence captain who interrogated Erik Dorf after the war, and from Erik's uncle, Kurt Dorf), the rest of this book spans the period from 1938 to 1945. This book covers all the events in the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Sobibor death camp revolt, and ultimately the end of World War II & the liberation of the camps. Seen through the point of view of both Rudi Weiss, and Erik Dorf, this book details all the crimes of the Nazis, including "Kristallnacht", the "Action T4 euthanasia" murders of the disabled, the Babi Yar massacres, the deportations to & imprisonment in the ghettos, and of course, the murders of millions in the death camps.
Holocaust is a searingly moving story, that drives home the magnitude of death, pain & destruction caused by the Hitler and his Nazi thugs during the Third Reich -- and how utterly senseless it all was. After reading this (just like after seeing the Holocaust TV miniseries), I just felt so bereft at the thought of how many happy loving families like the Weiss family were ruthlessly destroyed for no reason. However, I'm glad that at least the book gave relative closure to the character & storyline of Rudi and Inga and shared what happened with/to them after the war -- UNLIKE the TV miniseries, which ended so abruptly, and left the ultimate fate of both Rudi and Inga, as virtual "cliff-hangers". I was glad that Rudi, especially, was able to start fresh and rebuild his life in Israel, remarry, have 2 sons, and live relatively happily on the kibbutz with his wife and children.
Nevertheless, just like with the majority of the Holocaust-related books or films that I've read or seen over the years, after reading Holocaust I was left feeling drained, defeated and devastated at how millions of innocent people were senselessly & brutally murdered -- and especially that the rest of the world just sat by day after day, week after week, and month after month for YEARS and just let it happen, and worse, keep happening. For all the claims & promises of "Never Again", the rest of the world has still sat by while genocide after genocide continues to happen -- in Cambodia, in North Korea, in Israel/Palestine, in Serbia/Croatia/Bosnia-Hercegovina, in Rwanda, the Sudan, and Sierra Leone, and in Uganda, the Congo, Darfur and so many others!
Unfortunately, the world seems to have learned NOTHING from the Holocaust, and that is one of the saddest & scariest things of all!! :(
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