Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust » (1st Edition)

The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes theemergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust.

ETERNAL TREBLINKA describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."

The Foreword is by Lucy Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. ETERNAL TREBLINKA has already received support from more than 200 humane, animal protection, and environmental groups around the world.

Publishers Weekly

Isaac Bashevis Singer first suggested that "for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka." Charles Patterson (Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond) expands on that risky analogy in his latest book, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust. Patterson hypothesizes a risky causal relationship, too, when he writes, "since violence begets violence, the enslavement of animals injected a higher level of domination and coercion into human history by creating oppressive hierarchical societies and unleashing large-scale warfare never seen before." Was human "enslavement" of animals the first step on the road to the Holocaust? Patterson doesn't say as much, but it's clear that he feels our inhumanity to the nonhuman is one of our greatest evils. ( Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Foreword by Lucy Kaplan, Esq.
Preface
PART I: A Fundamental Debacle
Chapter 1 The Great Divide
Chapter 2 Wolves, Apes, Pigs, Rats, Vermin
PART II: Master Species, Master Race
Chapter 3 The Industrialization of Slaughter
Chapter 4 Improving the Herd
Chapter 5 Without the Homage of a Tear
PART III: Holocaust Echoes
Chapter 6 We Were Like That Too
Chapter 7 This Boundless Slaughterhouse
Chapter 8 The Other Side of the Holocaust
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index