As the text reports on another page distinguished by
compelling photographs to the case of Jewish determination, "despite the
high walls of the ghettos and the military strength of the Nazis, many
people in the ghettos escapes or fought in their hearts and minds. For
most, resistance took the form of clinging to the love of family and
friends, holding on to traditions, and strengthening their hope." (Wood,
66)
Reviews of the text are uniformly positive, particularly pointed to
the healthy balance of objectivity and sensitivity found in the writing and
layout. In particular, the arrangement of real-life testimony, statistics
and traditional text-book multimedia layouts would together produce a text
regarded by critics as thorough and compelling. The review offered by
Publisher's Weekly on the text is a straightforward explanation of the
contents of the text. Most effusively praised by the review is the appeal
to first-person accounts of experience in ghettos and concentration camps.
The review notes that "each chapter includes a two-page spread entitled
Voices, devoted largely to excerpts from 23 interviews in the Foundation's
video archives." (PW, 1) This is a uniformly powerful way, the review
suggests, of demonstrating the individual scope of tragedy within an
academic context that also takes account for the enormity of suffering
which the Nazis spread across Europe.
According to the review, there is also a positive perspective offered
on the perseverance of the Jews which matches the testimony noted above
concerning the retention of identity. Publisher's Weekly states of the
author that "she clearly wants to reclaim the individuality and humanity of
those...
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