Holocaust victims faced moral dilemmas for which no one could prepare, and yet many of these life-and-death situations required immediate decisive action. In Problems Unique to the Holocaust, leading Holocaust scholars examine the difficult questions from this chapter of history…
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. This encoun…
