Title: 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