"VECNA TREBLINKA" PUBLISHED IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

VECNA TREBLINKA--the Czech edition of the highly acclaimed, controversial book "ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" by Dr. Charles Patterson--has been published in Prague.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Publishing House Prah in Prague recently published VECNA TREBLINKA. It is the Czech edition of ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (New York: Lantern Books, 2002) by American historian and Holocaust educator Charles Patterson, Ph.D. VECNA TREBLINKA was translated by Viktor Faktor and has an Introduction by the Czech-American activist Jan Cejka.

The title ETERNAL TREBLINKA comes from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, to whom the book is dedicated. Singer, who grew up in Poland and fled to the United States in 1935, was the first major writer in modern literature to describe the exploitation and slaughter of animals in terms of the Holocaust. "In relation to them, all people are Nazis," he wrote, "for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."

The book has also been published in Italy (UN'ETERNA TREBLINKA) and in Poland (WIECZNA TREBLINKA). The German edition is scheduled for publication in June 2004. Publishing houses in Israel, Spain, and The Netherlands are also reviewing the book for publication.

Here's what others are saying:

"I urge you to read ETERNAL TREBLINKA and think deeply about its important message." --Dr. Jane Goodall

"Powerful, moving, gut-wrenching, brilliant--destined to be a classic" --Aviva Cantor, journalist and author

"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly recommended...a unique contribution." --Midwest Book Review

"Important and timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that ETERNAL TREBLINKA will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication)

"You must read this carefully documented book" --La Stampa (Italian national newspaper)

"There are good books...entertaining, useful, informative; great books...whose message reveals a fundamental truth previously unknown or overlooked; and important books...that can save lives and ameliorate suffering: ETERNAL TREBLINKA is all three." --Satya Magazine, New York City

"ETERNAL TREBLINKA should be on every list of essential reading for an informed citizenry...for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it tells." --National Jewish Post & Opinion

"...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century." --Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns

"The moral challenge posed by ETERNAL TREBLINKA turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal lesson of the Holocaust." --Maariv (Israeli newspaper)

"It is seldom that such a comprehensive work of scholarship springs from a heart of compassion in the service of a noble and necessary idea. All the ingredients of your thesis--that the oppression of animals serves as the model for all other forms of oppression--have been available to thinking people for generations, but it remained for you to pull them together." --Helen Weaver, author of The Daisy Sutra

"It grips like a thriller." --The Freethinker (UK)

"This book is going to change the world." --Albert Kaplan, Albert Kaplan & Co., Johns Island, SC

For more information about VECNA TREBLINKA, contact the publisher:

Martin Vopenka
Publishing House PRAH
Mezi skolami 2334/8
158 00 Praha 5
Czech Republic

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