Book description
Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War,
Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War
Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one
of human history's darkest hours.
The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable
physical and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human
history, tales of faith, love and courage can be found. As well as
revealing the story of the Holocaust as directly experienced by
victims, these testimonies also illustrate how, even enduring the most
harsh conditions, degrading treatment and suffering massive family
losses, hope, the will to survive, and the human spirit still shine through.
Lyn Smith BA (Hons) MA is a lecturer in International Politics at the
Open University, and lectures in Politics, International Relations and
Human Rights at the Webster University (USA) in London. Over the past
twenty years she has worked continuously as a freelance interviewer for
the IWM Holocaust Sound Archive, particularly after being specially
commissioned for the new IWM Holocaust Exhibition when it was in the
late 1990s.
