In the beginning, there was no word. There was no word adequate to label and mentally assimilate the murder of two of three European Jews in states occupied by and/or allied to Nazi Germany in World War II. Although the West had been informed about the extermination plot and the camps since the summer of 1942, belief in their accomplishments and actuality had not spread among the public until after Allied soldiers, liberating the camps in 1945, themselves saw the survivors - skeletons of skin and bone with burning eyes - behind the barbed wire of the camps and filmed them.
- From Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust by Helen Fein
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