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Lädt ... The Lampshadevon Mark Jacobson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A very interesting story about a horrifying artefact. The subtitle "...from Buchenwald to New Orleans" is only too accurate. There is a lot of travel in the book and the author spoke to many people, some of whom seemed entirely irrelevant. But every red herring and every digression went into the book (some in the Notes; Jacobson kept the Notes for entire mini-stories that even he could not shoehorn into the book; perhaps he should have made more extensive use of the section). We follow Jacobson to and fro on his travels as he tells the story in pieces and revisits New Orleans multiple times. He may have revisited Germany multiple times too; quite frankly I started to lose interest around page 200, only two-thirds of the way into this somewhat bloated book, and skimmed the remainder. Perhaps he was in Germany once and interspersed it with New Orleans stories. Probably the most unexpected part of the story to me was the reaction of Holocaust museums to the lampshade. It was tested and proven to be made from human skin, it was of the correct era and place more or less (European, first half of 20th century), the circumstantial evidence was fairly solid, but the director of the major Holocaust museum in the USA insisted in the face of all testimony that the Nazi lampshade thing was "a myth". Her parting words were to the effect that even if it were proven to be true, it's still a myth. Yad Vashem had a more professional, museum science reason for wanting no part of it: the provenance was lacking, where might it have actually been before it was looted from the rubble of post-Katrina New Orleans? The ending of the book is inconclusive and (presumably by design) unsatisfying. Jacobson decides to bury the lampshade. He has the details mostly clear; the medical examiner from NYC who is also a cantor will sing at the funeral. Then he decides not to and takes it back to Buchenwald for further testing. It might stay there. Whatever. ( ) Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The journey that takes Mark Jacobson around the world began when a friend bought a lamp at a rummage sale and was told that it was made from the skins of Jews. While he didn't believe the story, he sent it to Mark, saying, "You're a journalist, you figure out what it is." After three years of research in America, Poland, Germany, and Israel, and with the assistance of forensic experts, DNA analysis, and consultations with Yad Yashem and the historical director at Buchenwald, Jacobson has investigated not only the truth of the thing itself but of the idea of it. He also analyzes our understanding of history; of myths, facts, and evidence; and of the concept of evil. Despite extensive historical reporting of items made of human skin in eyewitness accounts from Nazi concentration camps, this is the first known discovery and investigation of such an artifact. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5318History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust HolocaustKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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