A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors

A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors by Berenbaum, Michael. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780821228289.

This interactive history of the Holocaust recounts one of the darkest times in history in an accessible manner with the help of removable documents and an audio CD. Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, provides the powerful narrative for this concise history of the Holocaust.Each chapter addresses a different topic, moving from the rise of the Nazis and ghettoization to the death camps and liberation. Events are personalized as survivors tell their stories. Many of these stories also appear on the accompanying hour-long CD, allowing readers to hear the voices of the survivors as they share their moving tales in their own words. Holding the removable documents in their hands and hearing the survivors voices on the CD, readers will be enlightened about one of the darkest chapters in history. The books emotional impact and historical depth make it an invaluable tool for both family discussion and individual understanding of the Holocaust.