Started: 9/9/2015
I did not finish this book. It was interesting for me to learn the recent history of the country of South Africa and how Mandela led it out of apartheid.
This book was a series of speeches... As a result it was hard to finish.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
(#21) Nelson Mandela, In His Own Words
Started: 9/9/2015
I did not finish this book. It was interesting for me to learn the recent history of the country of South Africa and how Mandela led it out of apartheid.
This book was a series of speeches... As a result it was hard to finish.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
(#20) The Holocaust: A German Historian Examines the Genocide, by Wolfgang Benz
Started: 9/7/2015Finished: 9/8/2015
"The ghettos represented a stepping-stone on the road to the Holocaust. Despite all the misery and suffering, despite all the tragedies that were enacted in them, they were still not the main venues of mass murder. In the years 1940 - 1943, they were the waiting rooms of destruction, the antechambers of hell, the stations on the way to camps to which human beings were deported for the express purpose of being murdered."
This book gave me a better perspective of the Riga Ghetto. Kristie and the girls saw this ghetto first hand in 2013.
Additionally, I read about the Jungfernhof concentration camp in which we came very close to one day in Riga.
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