Voices From the Holocaust

About the Interviewer

ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER Harry James Cargas, professor of literature and language at Webster University in St. Louis, has among his twenty-five books: Death and Hope (1970), Encountering Myself (1977), When God and Man Failed (1981), The Holocaust: An Annotated Bibliography (1985), Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian (1989), Shadows ofAuschwitz: A Christian Response to the Holocaust (1990), and Conversations with Elie Wiesel (1992); He has served as vice-president of the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Church Struggle and the Holocausti on the Board ofDirectors of the Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studiesi on the International Advisory Council for the Foundation to Sustain Christian Rescuersi on the Executive Councilfor the International Philosophers for the Prevention of Nuclear Omnicidei and on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Ultimate Reality and Meaning. He is the only Roman Catholic ever appointed to the International Advisory Committee of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Cargas received the Tree of Life Award of the Jewish National fund (5,000 trees planted near Jerusalem in what is named the Harry James Cargas Parkland), the Eternal Flame 164 Voices from the Holocaust Award of the Anne Frank Institute, and the Human Rights Award of the United Nations Association. He has lectured in Berlin, Paris, Toronto, Rome, London, Vienna, Dublin, and throughout the United States. He hosted a television program for the Central Education Network for several years and has had a radio commentary program in St. Louis for over eighteen years. Most recently he was appointed to the advisory board of the Romani-Jewish Alliance. ...