"SHATTERED! 50 Years of Silence"
Book Reviews

History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria

All English-speaking readers are indebted to Dr. Felicia (Steigman) Carmelly. She at long last has shattered the silence surrounding the broken lives of a generation of Romanian and Ukranian Jews during World War II, particularly in that artificial creation which was called Transnistria. Drawing on a multiplicity of sources in a number of languages, Dr. Carmelly produced a valuable and comprehensive volume which is at once history, documentary, memoir and memorial.

- Manuel Prutschi, Executive Director, Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region.

This publication is an invaluable contribution against the struggle against obscurity of the Romanian Holocaust. Anyone interested in Jewish life, history and personal testimonies must read this long-overdue, heartfelt book.

- Dr. Shmuel Ben-Zion, The Open University of Tel Aviv and the Institute of Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa.

This anguished book brings together the apocalyptic horrors visited upon the victims, the depredations and the disgrace besmirching the perpetrators, and the perverse cruelty of ordinary citizens whose church-sanctioned anti-Semitism had stored up incendiary savagery for centuries.

Christian readers will have to assess their churches and search their hearts as they own the unspeakable outcome of falsification and degradation in the name of the Christian faith.

Those who are frustrated with yet another exploration of the Holocaust and who ask impatiently (if not self-righteously), "Can't the Jews forgive?", must be reminded that only victims can never forgive, and the Jewish victims of Christian cruelty have been slain.

- Reverend Victor A. Shepherd, Toronto

This is the volume we have all been waiting for to close the historical gap in Holocaust studies. This valuable publication should be in every Holocaust Resource Centre and personal library.

The author, a survivor of Transnistria and the founder of the Transnistria Survivors Association, has produced a well researched anthology which generates awareness of the Romanian and south-western Ukranian Jewry genocide.

- Pnina Zilberman, Director, Holocaust Educational and Memorial Centre of Toronto.

This first English language anthology is well documented. It enlightens the reader and intensifies our determination against racism and discrimination.

- Dr. Slomo Leibovici-Lais, President, World Cultural Association of Jews from Romania, Israel.