In 1996 Martin Gilbert was asked to lead students on a tour of the places in Europe that were the stage of one of history's greatest human tragedies. The two-week journey that resulted, with England's leading Holocaust and World War II scholar as its guide, culminated in this powerful travel narrative.
Martin Gilbert is professor of Holocaust Studies at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including Final Journey, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy, and Atlas of the Holocaust.
Gilbert... is a dedicated guide to this difficult material. We can be grateful for his thoroughness, courage and guidance. Los Angeles Times Book Review The achievement of Gilbert's Holocaust Journey is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms, the scale of genocide that to many is still unimaginable. Literary Review (UK) A powerfully moving narrative that reveals the deepest thoughts and feelings of 13 travelers during the summer of 1996... Without overpowering his readers, [Gilbert] juxtaposes the histories of the places visited with descriptions of what they look like today. The overall effect is to make the past live by transferring it to the present, where it can be handled and evaluated anew. America A travelogue, spanning two weeks, of the essential sites of the Holocaust, by the venerable historian and author of many books... [Gilbert] guides one of his classes on an extraordinary field trip... He lectures at the most significant sights--of desecrated synagogues, book burnings, and gas chambers... To these moving testaments Gilbert here adds the voices of his fellow travelers, both Jews and non-Jews, who draw closer as the trip progresses and they relive the terrible history... The very best book for any Jew, or any human being, planning the same soul-searching trip. Kirkus Reviews
Gilbert... is a dedicated guide to this difficult material. We can be grateful for his thoroughness, courage and guidance. Los Angeles Times Book Review The achievement of Gilbert's Holocaust Journey is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms, the scale of genocide that to many is still unimaginable. Literary Review (UK) A powerfully moving narrative that reveals the deepest thoughts and feelings of 13 travelers during the summer of 1996... Without overpowering his readers, [Gilbert] juxtaposes the histories of the places visited with descriptions of what they look like today. The overall effect is to make the past live by transferring it to the present, where it can be handled and evaluated anew. America A travelogue, spanning two weeks, of the essential sites of the Holocaust, by the venerable historian and author of many books... [Gilbert] guides one of his classes on an extraordinary field trip... He lectures at the most significant sights--of desecrated synagogues, book burnings, and gas chambers... To these moving testaments Gilbert here adds the voices of his fellow travelers, both Jews and non-Jews, who draw closer as the trip progresses and they relive the terrible history... The very best book for any Jew, or any human being, planning the same soul-searching trip. Kirkus Reviews
Gilbert (Holocaust studies, Univ. of London; History of the Twentieth Century, LJ 9/15/97) has added an interesting dimension to Holocaust studies by chronicling a tour of Holocaust sites that he conducted with a dozen students and friends; the text of documents they studied at each stop is included. Gilbert not only describes their itinerary and the problems of conducting a tour but integrates the history of European Jewry into his narrative. He then details the specific events of the Holocaust associated with each location. Although many of his stories are well known to students of the Shoah, the result is more than a chronicle of his tour, for the book provides a window into how more than a millennium of Jewish history came to an end and in many cases almost vanished. Recommended for all Judaica collections and Holocaust libraries.‘Frederic Krome, Northern Kentucky Univ., Highland Heights
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