An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945
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An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 is a book by John Sack, claiming that some of the Jews who survived the death camps of the Holocaust took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians and torturing them. Sack estimates that 60,000 to 80,000 people died.
According to the New Republic review, which uses information from Sack's endnotes, most of the people working in these camps were not Jewish, a fact Sack does his best to conceal, according to the review. Sack, claiming the criticism was demonstrably untrue, attempted to publish his response in a letter to the editor of The New Republic, which the magazine refused to run. He then asked to purchase an ad. The New Republic agreed to publish one, but later reversed its position.
In 1993, the CBS News program 60 Minutes ran a story on the book, focusing on one of its main characters, Solomon Morel, the commandant of Swietochlowice prison camp. Following the book's publication, Morel was indicted by Polish authorities for crimes against humanity and for the extermination of innocent people.
Following the publication of this book, its author, himself a Jew, was accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial by some critics.
External links
- author's website (http://www.johnsack.com/)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography - on An Eye for an Eye (http://www.johnsack.com/dictionary_of_literary_biography_an_eye_for_an_eye.htm)
- The Commandant - a transcript of the story run in 60 minutes (http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/docs/KillerMorel.html)
- supportive review (http://www.freedomsite.org/colum/collins16.html) by Doug Collins, who was convicted of anti-Semitic speech in British Columbia
- critical review (http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/s/sack.john/press/goldhagen-on-sack.19931223) in New Republic magazine
- ISBN 0-9675691-0-9