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The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans Paperback - 2011
by Jacobson, Mark
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Details
- Title The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans
- Author Jacobson, Mark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-04-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781416566281
- ISBN 9781416566281 / 1416566287
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.91 x 5.79 x 0.88 in (22.63 x 14.71 x 2.24 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Germany, Detective and mystery stories, English
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
Summary
Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prison ers to make common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession of one of these awful objects, and of his search to establish the origin, and larger meaning, of what can only be described as an icon of terror.
From Hurricane KatrinaâÈ'ravaged New Orleans to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to the Buchenwald concentration camp to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, almost everything Jacobson uncovers about the lampshade is contradictory, mysterious, shot through with legend and specious information. Through interviews with forensic experts, famous Holocaust scholars (and deniers), Buchenwald survivors and liberators, and New Orleans thieves and cops, Jacobson gradually comes to see the lampshade as a ghostly illuminator of his own existential status as a Jew, and to understand exactly what that means in the context of human responsibility. One question looms as his search progresses: what to do with the lampshadeâÈ'this unsettling thing that used to be someone?
From Hurricane KatrinaâÈ'ravaged New Orleans to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to the Buchenwald concentration camp to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, almost everything Jacobson uncovers about the lampshade is contradictory, mysterious, shot through with legend and specious information. Through interviews with forensic experts, famous Holocaust scholars (and deniers), Buchenwald survivors and liberators, and New Orleans thieves and cops, Jacobson gradually comes to see the lampshade as a ghostly illuminator of his own existential status as a Jew, and to understand exactly what that means in the context of human responsibility. One question looms as his search progresses: what to do with the lampshadeâÈ'this unsettling thing that used to be someone?
