‘Wolf: A Story of Hate’ by Zeev Scheinwald With Ella Scheinwald, Preface by Ella Scheinwald

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Wolf: A Story of Hate is the true story of Zeev Sheinwald, who during World War II was a young Jewish man imprisoned in corporate-owned labor camps. (“Zeev” means wolf in Hebrew.) Later, he was sent to three concentration camps but managed to survive. He wrote the book in collaboration with his daughter, Ella Scheinwald, who also wrote the preface. The book received five out of five stars on Amazon.com.

Quote: “My first recollection was him sitting next to my bed and me asking him — maybe I was five — and he hated to tell me. He always said it’s too difficult, a little girl shouldn’t hear it, and I would beg him to tell me and he would tell me. He censored what he told me but I had the sense that it was my job to save him.”
— Ella Scheinwald

Sources: Amazon.com, TheExaminerNews.com

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“[T]he foundations for extremism usually are held in check by various restraints. Societies are not liberal, moderate, progressive, and free because almost all their citizens – let alone their politicians — are liberal, moderate, progressive or committed to the freedoms of others.

“But societies consistently avoid extremism when the infrastructures of freedom are strong: when key institutions and norms encourage a more decent, rights-respective, lawful politics; when powerful social movements and independent media hold leaders to account, expose rather than reinforce political fantasies, and champion the rights of the vulnerable; and when information is produced and scrutinized by scholars, civil servants, and non-governmental organizations devoid of either government repression or vested interests.

“Yet no infrastructure is rigidly immovable, and once key components are eroded and weakened, once sections of the political and cultural elite attempt to mobilize the foundations of extremism, the system of restraints can swiftly collapse.

“While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”

— Jonathan Leader Maynard in his incisive article “Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century” To read the entire article, click here.