I give her credit for that, because it is, as I have said, so difficult for many of us to go over these horrific crimes against humanity, this genocide of the innocent. She does not dwell on the nauseating instances of the full-out torture and crimes committed by the Nazi regime and their minions, but it is there, between the lines and informed by what we all know about these monsters.
She has read the updated documents, consulted with Holocaust experts, engaged researchers throughout Europe, and given us a beautifully constructed book. The research is impeccable (Posner is the researcher for her husband Gerald Posner’s books), and, as a researcher myself, I understand how difficult it is to do this kind of digging into the past. let’s talk about this very well-written book. (I warned you, I get emotional… )īut, I digress. (Yes, am talking to you, too, Turkey, for that Armenian genocide!) There are still people and corporations who collaborated with the Nazis who were never punished as they should have been, and, yes – here’s where I break with my more liberal friends – only the death penalty sufficed for criminals such as them.
(I was the last person in New York City to see Schindler’s List, by the way, when it came out in 1993.)Īnd let me state at the outset – full disclosure here – that there is no such thing for me as a statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes and genocide. ("The Pharmacist of Auschwitz," by Patricia Posner, Crux Publishing, 2017)Īfter I told local Miami Beach author Patricia Posner I would review her book, I thought, "What have I gotten myself into?" I get very emotional reading books about the Holocaust or seeing films about that tragic time.
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