A collection of twenty four essays by prominent scholars specializing in the history of the Holocaust has been published by the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Centre for Holocaust Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Entitled The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars, it is an English-language publication by authors including: Elie Wiesel, Yehuda Bauer, Michael Berenbaum, Eleonora Bergman, Ian Kershaw, Stanislaw Krajewski, Zdzislaw Mach, Dalia Ofer, Nechama Tec, Feliks Tych, Jonathan Webber, Jan Wolenski and Moshe Zimmermann.

The book looks at the Holocaust in the context of ethics and Jewish-Christian relations and examines the current state of research into the Holocaust. According to the Director of the Auschwitz Museum, it provokes the readers to pose the fundamental questions connected to one’s personal responsibility for the contemporary world.

Since its foundation in 1957, the publishing house of the Auschwitz Museum has published over 400 books in a total print-run of 8 million copies, including albums, guide-books and memoirs in twenty languages. (mk/mmj)