''Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust'' is a collection of interviews with victims of the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

as well as people who collaborated with or worked directly for the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

regime. The

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

commissioned Lyn Smith to work with them on their sound archive. The interviews she brought together are now part of their permanent Holocaust exhibit as well as being set down in this book from Ebury Press. The book is written by Smith, who puts the interviews into chronological order and gives context to the events surrounding them. It also features a foreword by

Laurence Rees Laurence Rees (born 1957) is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by them, ...

External links

Forgotten Voices website

Imperial War Museum
2006 non-fiction books Oral history books Personal accounts of the Holocaust Books of interviews British non-fiction books Ebury Publishing books {{Holocaust-memoir-stub