Justice Matters —— Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II

This books is illuminating because it describes how to move forward. It is not only about the past, but about a better future. This book is a very moving and personal account of what it means to go through a painful journey and come through the other side with a deep understanding of justice. Reading the accounts of the Holocaust, I felt like I’ve been a witness . Those types of testimonies are important because they become part of a collective memory, a shared history. If the daughter of a Holocaust survivor can find justice and peace, then there is infinite hope for everyone who has suffered irreparable injustices.

I read this book for a class and have been entirely changed by it. I've studied the Holocaust a lot, but the approach the author takes toward integrating memory and justice in a way to move forward is truly revolutionary. The approach the author took is BOLD - she brought descendants of Holocaust survivors and descendants of Nazi officers together for a 4-day conference. This book presents the results.... and so much more. This book reveals something deep and abiding about what it means to be human.

A fascinating book, and a very good read. In Justice Matters, Mona Weissmark explores the complexities behind the legacy that is forced upon the children of holocaust survivors and holocaust perpetrators. While it is so easy to see the world in shades of either black or white, Weissmark's Justice Matters shows that people's perceived truth is often times much more complicated.

As an author and journalist who has studied this field for years, I found Mona Weissmark's "Justice Matters" an important addition to the history of Holocaust literature, and our never-ending quest to understand the why to Nazi crimes. In her search for ultimate answers to such fundamental questions such as whether good people can pursue heinous acts, or whether there is an absolute truth to issues of morality and justice about the crimes of World War II, Weissmark successfully stimulates a vigorous and fascinating debate. She unmasks the complexity behind matters that too often are oversimplified. No student of history or the Holocaust can finish Justice Matters without being moved by her comprehensive study of the children of both survivors and Nazis, and come to the realization of how their subjective views profoundly affect our own thinking. But you don't have to be someone interested merely in the subject matter to find the exposition and discussion of the central themes of good and evil and crime and forgiveness to be fascinating and compelling.

In "Justice Matters" Mona Weissmark has made unique and critical contributions to a central problem ouf our times. How can the children of those who survived the genocidal crimes of the Holocaust come to understand the children of those who perpetrated those crimes? Can understanding bring reconciliation and lift the burden of the past from the shoulders of both groups? In this book Weissmark described her groundbreaking work whereby she brought the children of Holocaust victims face to face with the children of Nazis for discussion of their feelings - rage, resentment, guilt, defensiveness and denial - and the extraordinary consequences that followed. Compassion and forgiveness, reconciliation and recognition of past crimes emerge to point a way to the peaceful solution of intense differences of a kind that threaten the peace of the world in or own day.

I absolutely loved this book! It was such a great read and was very insightful.

A fascinating account of a very dark event in human history. I think the lessons and perspectives shared in this book can be applied to many of the situations we are dealing with as a society today.

This books is illuminating because it describes how to move forward. It is not only about the past, but about a better future.This book is a very moving and personal account of what it means to go through a painful journey and come through the other side with a deep understanding of justice.Reading the accounts of the Holocaust, I felt like I’ve been a witness . Those types of testimonies are important because they become part of a collective memory, a shared history.If the daughter of a Holocaust survivor can find justice and peace, then there is infinite hope for everyone who has suffered irreparable injustices.

As an author and journalist who has studied this field for years, I found Mona Weissmark's "Justice Matters" an important addition to the history of Holocaust literature, and our never-ending quest to understand the why to Nazi crimes. In her search for ultimate answers to such fundamental questions such as whether good people can pursue heinous acts, or whether there is an absolute truth to issues of morality and justice about the crimes of World War II, Weissmark successfully stimulates a vigorous and fascinating debate. She unmasks the complexity behind matters that too often are oversimplified. No student of history or the Holocaust can finish Justice Matters without being moved by her comprehensive study of the children of both survivors and Nazis, and come to the realization of how their subjective views profoundly affect our own thinking. But you don't have to be someone interested merely in the subject matter to find the exposition and discussion of the central themes of good and evil and crime and forgiveness to be fascinating and compelling.