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How patiently we stack up detail on detail of this stunning crime. Hitler-Iagogoaded the Germans to systematic, bureaucratic, industrialized murder. We try to believe no one else would do this. No one used gas showers on Native Americans or in the gulag. Sometimes armies sweep over new lands and murder all, as in the Book of Moses or in Bosnia. But we are still numb from the evidence found in 1945 (despite the 4 prior years of newspaper articles in New York and elsewhere). We have to remind ourselves to remember.
In this unique work of remembrance, the survivor Robert Krell and Marc I. Sherman have continued the work of the survivor Leo Eitinger in preparing an enormous list of research findings. This is the third overwhelming edition, 12 years having elapsed since the second. The book in question is merely volume four of this bibliography of writings on the Holocaust-Shoah. There is little to criticize in a work that is unique. The effects of the Shoah are largely negative. Yet some people were so resilient as to draw inspiration from surviving. And there is Israel, the beacon lit again after 2,000 years.
Excluded from consideration are Madagascar and Evian. They set the stage for the Holocaust, but were not part of the concentration camps or the murder factories, per se. Nazi policy until 1941 pushed the half million Jewish Germans to leave. The Nazis proposed making Madagascar their home. At Evian, Roosevelt held a conference of 32 nations in July 1938 “slamming the doors” (Newsweek, cited in Wyman, 1985) on emigration of Jewish Germans. The Nazis replied with Kristallnacht. Roosevelt and the rest did not budge. In January 1939, Hitler threatened to kill anyone who was Jewish in the event of war. For all his scornful speeches and writings, this was the first time he threatened to kill Jewish people. Still, U.S. immigration policy did not change, and the St. Louis was turned back to Europe with its thousand souls.
Fifty years is too soon to do more than mourn. Some l