Program Description
Dr. George Eisen, an internationally acclaimed author, widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on the Holocaust, has engaged on a twelve-year journey, across three continents and eleven countries, for discovering a hitherto unexplored corner of the Holocaust, and the fate of his two uncles that were murdered, along hundreds of thousands of Jews, in the summer of 1941.
In writing about this historical moment of mass murder, Dr. Eisen tried to understand the psychological agony of the victims, the motivation of the executioners, the decision making of the so-called “desk murderers,” and the behavior of the by-standards. What were they thinking?
More importantly, he reflects on the evolution of his research in wholly unplanned twists and turns in meetings the survivors, families of the murderers, and the readers who he forces of finding answers to these psychological riddles.