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This unprecedented oral history brings together the voices of twenty-seven Holocaust witnesses -- including Jews and non-Jews, American POWs and GIs who liberated the camps, resistance fighters and a member of the Hitler youth -- to form a stunning fluid narrative. Weaving personal accounts, history, and witness profiles, it captures the sequence of events through the eyes of the victims: Hitler's rise to power; life in the ghettos; and the difficulties of living in a post-war world haunted by the shadows and the memories of the past.Originally published as the companion volume to a PBS documentary, Witness is illustrated with photographs, documents, and other memorabilia of the period. An "absolute must for Holocaust studies" (Booklist), it conveys a startling sense of immediacy about events from which we are now so distant -- events that it insists must not be forgotten.