Facing the extreme

Description:

An examination of the human capacity for moral life; reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Also offers an elequent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality.

subjects: Concentration camps,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Moral and ethical aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects of Concentration camps,  Moral and ethical aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Moral and ethical aspects of Totalitarianism,  Totalitarianism,  Prisons, soviet union,  New York Times reviewed,  Internment camps,  Nazi concentration camps