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Memory Offended

The Auschwitz Convent Controversy
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Auschwitz is almost synonymous with the Holocaust, the systematic attempt of the Nazis to destroy Jewry. In the 1980s, Polish Carmelite nuns, with the approval of both Polish Church and government officials, moved into a red-brick building, once a storehouse for the poisonous Zyklon-B used in the gas chambers. Situated on the perimeter of the barbed wire boundary surrounding the original part of the Auschwitz camp, the nuns established a convent. That move has provoked heated controversy among Jews and Christians. "Memory Offended" speaks of this situation. Using the Auschwitz convent controversy as a prism, the book seeks to refract light to illuminate the facts surrounding it and to identify, analyze and comment on the long-range issues, questions and implications that lie hidden within the controversy.

Author Biography:

CAROL RITTNER, formerly Director of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity in New York, is a Roman Catholic Sister of Mercy who has written extensively. Her previous books include The Courage to Care (edited with Sondra Myers, 1986) and Elie Wiesel: Between Memory and Hope (1990). JOHN K. ROTH is Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. In addition to lecturing widely throughout the United States and the world, Roth has published more than 175 articles, reviews, and 17 books. His most recent books are Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy, The Questions of Philosophy, American Ground: Vistas, Visions, and Revisions and Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications.
Release date Australia
June 19th, 1991
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Carol Rittner
  • Edited by John K. Roth
Pages
312
Dimensions
156x234x19
ISBN-13
9780275936068
Product ID
14270281

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