The European tour of the controversial People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit will debut in Stuttgart, Germany on Thursday, March 18. The display consists of eight 60-square-foot panels, each showing photos of animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses side by side with photos from Nazi concentration camps. The exhibit will tour 11 European cities for three weeks, ending up in Amsterdam on April 8.
The European PETA "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit will begin in Germany in Stuttgart's 's historic Schlossplatz on Thursday, March 18.
The display, consisting of eight 60-square-foot panels, shows photos of animal factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi concentration camps. The PETA exhibit graphically depicts the point made by the Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "In relation to animals, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." (Treblinka was a Nazi death camp north of Warsaw.)
The exhibit, which has already been seen in 55 U.S. cities, will tour Europe from March 18 to April 8:
March 18 (Thursday)--Stuttgart, GERMANY
March 19 (Friday)--Zurich, SWITZERLAND
March 22 (Monday)--Milan, ITALY
March 24 (Wednesday)--Zagreb, CROATIA
March 26 (Friday)--Vienna, AUSTRIA
March 29 (Monday)--Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
March 30 (Tuesday)--Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
April 2 (Friday)--Warsaw, POLAND
April 5 (Monday)--Stockholm, SWEDEN
April 6 (Tuesday)--Copenhagen, DENMARK
April 8 (Thursday)--Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
The exhibit is inspired by and based on the highly acclaimed American book "ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (NY: Lantern Books, 2002) by historian and Holocaust educator Charles Patterson, Ph.D.
http://www.EternalTreblinka.com
Patterson's book has been translated and published in the following countries:
Italy
UN'ETERNA TREBLINKA
Editori Riuniti, Rome
http://www.editoririuniti.it/product.asp?catalog_name=Collane&category_name=Primo+Piano&product_id=88-359-5324-3
Poland
WIECZNA TREBLINKA
Vega!POL" Publishing House, Opole
http://www.vivapol.most.org.pl/publikacje.htm
Czech Republic
VECNA TREBLINKA
Publishing House Prah, Prague
ETERNAL TREBLINKA has also been translated into German and is scheduled for publication this summer by Zweitausendeins Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main.
Publishers in France, Spain, The Netherlands, Norway, Croatia, Israel, and India are also reviewing the book for publication.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK--
"I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message."
--Dr. Jane Goodall
"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly recommended...a unique contribution."
--Midwest Book Review
"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
"The whole effect is a very powerful document...No one who reads this book will fail to be moved."
--Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
"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
"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)
"Important and timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that Eternal Treblinka will be widely read."
--Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication)
"Thorough and thought-provoking book"
--Ha'aretz (Israeli newspaper)
"Every so often a book is written that has the potential to make an incredible difference. Eternal Treblinka is one such book."
--N. Glenn Perrett
"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
"Powerful, moving, gut-wrenching, brilliant--destined to be a classic"
--Aviva Cantor, journalist and author
"You must read this carefully documented book"
--La Stampa (Italian national newspaper)
"...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century."
--Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
"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 the book, visit http://www.powerfulbook.com
PETA hopes that its exhibit will stimulate people to think how the victimization of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others, characterized as life unworthy of life" during the Holocaust, parallels the way that modern society exploits and slaughters animals.
Just as the Nazis tried to dehumanize" Jews by forcing them to live in filthy, crowded conditions, tearing children away from their mothers and killing people in assembly-line fashion, animals on todays factory farms are stripped of all that is natural to them and are treated as nothing more than meat-, egg-, and milk-producing "machines."
"The very same mindset that made the Holocaust possible--that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different' or 'inferior'--is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day," says PETA Campaign Coordinator Matt Prescott, who organized the exhibit and is bringing it to Europe. Prescott feels strongly about this because many of his own family members were murdered by the Nazis. He says, "We are asking people to allow compassion into their hearts and onto their tables by embracing a nonviolent, plant-based diet that respects other forms of life."
To view the photo panels of PETAs "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign, visit http://www.MassKilling.com
EUROPEAN TOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jürgen Faulmann, Kampagnenleiter
PETA-Deutschland e.V.
Pforzheimerstrasse 383
70499 Stuttgart
Tel. +49 (0)711-866-6165
Mobil+49 (0)173-657-5668
Fax +49 (0)711-866-6166
http://www.peta.de
http://www.massenvernichtung.info
|
