Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust

Description

ETERNAL TREBLINKA is about the common roots of animal and human oppression and similarities between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The book's title comes from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The book describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth and the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) during modern times--with America giving the world the slaughterhouse and Nazi Germany giving it the gas chamber. The book concludes with profiles of Holocaust-connected Jewish and German animal advocates, as well as a chapter on the compassionate vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer.