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pictures of bodies, or people
sitting, waiting to be loaded
onto the cattle cars and
deported to almost certain
death, it's difficult."
But, she adds, "Everybody
asks, 'Isn't it depressing to
work on this?' Depressing
isn't really the word. It's
upsetting, terrifying, insane.
It's unbelievable, unbelievable
that they processed human
beings like industrial raw
material. But 'depressing'
means no hope, and there is
hope. This was an anomaly, a
terrible abberation."
Meanwhile, Charles Smith,
who with former Macmillan
president Jeremiah Kaplan
has moved over to Simon &
Shuster, says he still feels a
personal interest in the En-
cyclopedia's future. Having
read through the whole set —
almost a million words —
mainly at home on his own
time, Smith muses on the
cumulative impact of the
work.
"I'd read a lot on the
Holocaust before, but reading
it like this, one article after
another — what struck me
was the coldbloodedness of
it," he says. "Not the in-
humanness so much as the
ahumanness of it. It was just
a systematic business, it
became routine. There wasn't
hatred or rage on the part of
the Nazis and their col-
laborators — they didn't seem
like people who'd escaped
from a lunatic asylum. Many
were well-educated, the core
of society: doctors, teachers.

It makes it all the harder to
understand."
But, he adds, "On the
bright side, if there is one and
I think there is, there are
many articles in the En-
cyclopedia on the Jews and
non-Jews involved in saving
others, at great risk to
themselves. There were nuns
who hid people in convents,
priests, politicians. . . many
people who helped save lives."
A German translation of
the Encyclopedia is currently
being negotiated with an
overseas publishing house,
and a fifth volume in the set
is contemplated for next year.
It would reprint source
materials on the Holocaust,
such as the daily communi-
ques of the commander in
charge of leveling the Warsaw
Ghetto, with reports on
number of people killed and
buildings razed each day.
Macmillan expects the En-
cyclopedia to be a profitable
venture. The company hopes
to sell 8,000 sets at around
$300 apiece, in the first two
years — largely to public,
university, or synagogue
libraries — and to keep selling
them throughout the next
decade.
"I think people thought
this would be a big city book
— for New York, Chicago,
Miami, Los Angeles," says
Charles Smith. "But it's sell-
ing everywhere. Just the
other day a little public
library in Louisiana bought
the set. Reception to it is
outstanding." n

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T

he first stage of
the Detroit Holocaust
Memorial Center's
definitive study of the world's
response to the Holocaust is
nearly completed.
The work, entitled The
World Reacts to the Holocaust
1945-1990, is expected to be
published in two volumes
totalling approximately 850
pages. The study will consist
of at least three dozen essays,
each dealing with a different
country and written by a dif-
ferent author.
Each essay will consist of
three parts. The first section
will discuss the country's pre-
Holocaust background. The

second section will deal with
the role of the country during
the Holocaust. The third and
largest section will analyze
the country's reaction to the
Holocaust in the years
leading up to the present.

According to David Wyman,
professor or history at the
Universiy of Massachusetts
and chairman of the project's
editorial board, while none of
the work is written yet, near-
ly every article has been
assigned to an expert. The on-
ly exceptions are Israel and
West Germany, which have
not yet been assigned because
"they are obviously among
the most important and we
want to select very carefully,"
said Wyman.
Scholars who have agreed

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