of fingers and tongues and the raping of the women, before all were murdered. Nowhere else had I ever heard the heroic tale of the Jewish Combat Organizations, who in their small, untrained group "defied 2,054 German soldiers and 36 officers with armored vehicles, tanks, cannons, flamethrowers and machine guns" for nearly a month. Another shocker was when I came across a picture of two Jew's being led away by British police. Here I had thought that the Jew's who stayed in the hostile countries did so on their own will. I was unaware that so many countries even the enemies of Germany would turn their backs on those who had no ally. Perhaps most disturbing were the descriptions of the way human bodies were taken and steamed to break them down into fats and oils which were collected to make German soap. Such details of the Holocaust era I had never been aware of. This was one of the strong points of the monograph; it gave many fascinating facts that would often not be learned in a film or in a classroom.
             "Holocaust: A History" took the experiences of those who had survived the Holocaust and put their experiences on paper in their own words. I do not wish to fill the entire paper with quotes that had touched me, however I feel they are the most accurate way that words alone can describe the event. One q
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