Today we're excited to share that we have some new books in the center! They include The Sketchbook from Auschwitz (above) and Beautiful Souls (below). The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Sketchbook from Auschwitz:
Aside from the Sketchbook, no drawings fo the Holocaust itself are extant. It is the only art work showing the fate of the Jews deported to the camp from the moment of their arrival at the ramp to the killing of the selected persons in the gas chambers. This makes it a unique illustrative source. ... There can be no doubt... as to the artist's talent and courage. He endangered himself by committing details fo camp life to paper; when it became clear that he coudl not go on drawing, he concealed his work. The fact that the last scene remains unifished may be a hint that the Sketchbook was hidden in dramatic circumstances.
An excerpt from the front flap of Beautiful Souls:
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls explores the flip side of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels oridnary people to defy the sway of authority and convention. Through the dramatic stories fo unlikely resisters who feel the flicker of conscience when thrust into morally compromising situations, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but by true believers who cling with unusal fierceness to their convictions.
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