"Of all the horrors of World War II, perhaps none was a vicious or as pointless as the Nazi Death Marches. With the war lost and most of the camps in Allied hands, the Germans marched tens of thousands of sick, emaciated and famished prisoners–Jews, Russians, Poles, Gypsies and others–to their death, often egged on by the local German population.
Samuel P. Oliner's exploration of The Nature of Good and Evil is informed by his grasp of history, his mastery of sociology and the authority of his own experience as one who as a young child of the Holocaust experienced the nature of both good and evil when he was rescued by a Polish non-Jew at the risk of her life. In this work, by concentrating on the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, Oliner has further solidified his well deserved reputation as a scholar of insight and discernment into an area often left to philosophers and theologians and he has enriched our vocabulary to comprehend both good and evil while enlarging our moral imagination. A valuable contribution to the field, an even more valuable contribution to moral discourse in our age of atrocity, he allows us to Understand the Many Faces of Moral and Immoral Human Behavior.--Michael Berenbaum
Nature of Good and Evil (Amazon Kindle)
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A historical study of the treatment of Jews in Yugoslavia after Nazi ideology was adopted, with an emphasis on the ways Jews survived and were rescued by those who put their own lives in great peril.
When Courage Prevailed (Amazon Kindle)
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Choice, April 2003
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—Today's Books, Abstract & Index, May 12, 2003
A Valuable Primer on Genocide
“Will Genocide Ever End? is a valuable primer in the terrible and persistent problem of genocide in human society.
