Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue: Death as Atrocity / Sarah K. Pinnock
Section One | Engagement with Holocaust Testimony
1. Holocaust Victims Speak; Do We Listen? / Leonard Grob
2. Dying in the Death Camps as Acts of Defiance / H. Martin Rumscheidt
3. At What Cost Survival? The Problem of the Prisoner-Functionary / Lissa Skitolsky
4. Witnessing Unrelenting Grief / Myrna Goldenberg
Section Two | Self-Consciousness of Mortality
5. Living For: Holocaust Survivors and Their Adult Children Encounter Death and Mortality / Michael Dobkowski
6. Bearing Witness to a Grotesque Land / Amy H. Shapiro
7. Melding Generations: A Meditation on Memory and Mortality / Rochelle L. Millen
Section Three | Ethical and Religious Reflection
8. Experiences of Death: Our Mortality and the Holocaust / Sarah K. Pinnock
9. A Jewish Reflection on the Nazis’ Assault on Death / David Patterson
10. Auschwitz and Hiroshima as Challenges to a Belief in the Afterlife: A Catholic Perspective / Didier Pollefeyt 11. Facing Death: What Happens to the Holocaust If Death Is the Last Word? / John K. Roth
Epilogue | Witnessing Mortality
Selected Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index
