"Books that Have Had an Impact on Me" II

Sylvia Rothchild’s Voices from the Holocaust which was published in 1975, gave me a life-changing insight into what my parents, two Auschwitz survivors, and millions of others had experienced. In small, compelling, sometimes humourous, heartbreaking and often horrifying detail Rothchild, who transcribed 650 of conversations with survivors, allows you to see the people she talked to. She shows you their heart and their soul. And makes it harder for us to slip survivors of catastrophes into a series of statistics or faceless graphs or dots on maps.

From “Books that have had an impact on me,” The Age (Australia) 2008