FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

  • Safe delivery by Christmas SANTA SAFE
    Messengers of Disaster

Messengers of Disaster

Annette Becker, Kathe Roth
    Product form
      FORMAT: Hardback

      R 1,176.00 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 1,176 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 20 - 30 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 196.00 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 392.00 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 294.00 with
      Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish resistance, independently shared this knowledge with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Having heard false rumors of wartime atrocities before, the leaders met the messengers with disbelief and inaction, leading to the eventual murder of more than six million people.Messengers of Disaster draws upon little-known texts from an array of archives, including the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen. Carrying the knowledge of disaster took a toll on Lemkin and Karski, but their work prepared the way for the United Nations to unanimously adopt the first human rights convention in 1948 and influenced the language we use to talk about genocide today. Annette Becker's detailed study of these two important figures illuminates how distortions of fact can lead people to deny knowledge of what is happening in front of their own eyes.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Annette Becker, Kathe Roth EAN: 9780299333201 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 501 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Wisconsin Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-01-11 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      War crimes, European history, The Holocaust

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Annette Becker is a professor of contemporary history at Paris-Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator with a specialty in historical nonfiction for more than thirty years.
      Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish resistance, independently shared this knowledge with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Having heard false rumors of wartime atrocities before, the leaders met the messengers with disbelief and inaction, leading to the eventual murder of more than six million people.Messengers of Disaster draws upon little-known texts from an array of archives, including the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen. Carrying the knowledge of disaster took a toll on Lemkin and Karski, but their work prepared the way for the United Nations to unanimously adopt the first human rights convention in 1948 and influenced the language we use to talk about genocide today. Annette Becker's detailed study of these two important figures illuminates how distortions of fact can lead people to deny knowledge of what is happening in front of their own eyes.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Annette Becker, Kathe Roth EAN: 9780299333201 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 501 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Wisconsin Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-01-11 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      War crimes, European history, The Holocaust

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Annette Becker is a professor of contemporary history at Paris-Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator with a specialty in historical nonfiction for more than thirty years.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account