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The Holocaust was a Christian as well as a Jewish tragedy, yet the Roman Catholic hierarchy has offered little official discourse on the Church's role in events. These essays - by Christians of various denominations, and Jews (including some Holocaust survivors) - provide constructive criticism.

Holocaust victims faced moral dilemmas for which no one could prepare, and yet many of these life-and-death situations required immediate decisive action. In Problems Unique to the Holocaust, leading Holocaust scholars examine the difficult questions from this chapter of history. Is it ever legitimate to betray others to save yourself? If a group of Jews is hiding behind a wall and a baby begins to cry, should an adult smother the child to pro...

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For almost a quarter of a century, Harry James Cargas has been wrestling with the pain and bewilderment he feels about the Holocaust. In a series of essays, Cargas deals with a variety of issues and questions that the Holocaust raises and concludes that Christian churches must accept a major portion of the blame for centuries of Jewish persecution that led up to the massacres of World War II. Further, he criticizes the silence and even complic...

Interviews with: Yitzhak Arad, Leo Eitinger, Emil Fackenheim, Whitney Harris, Jan Karski, Arnost Lustig, Mordecai Paldiel, Marion Pritchard, Dorothee Soelle, Leon Wells, Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal. The late Harry James Cargas was professor emeritus of literature and language at Webster University and author of thirty-two books, including Problems Unique to the Holocaust.