John Sack

Audio Cassette, approx. 58 minutes
Stock Number: A156


This prolific author and journalist tells the story of his headline-making book, An Eye for an Eye, in a dramatically delivered address to the 13th IHR Conference that he had been prevented from giving at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Sack, who is himself Jewish, relates how Jews working in Communist Poland’s “Office of State Security” tortured and murdered innocent German civilians. An Eye for an Eye (available from Noontide Press) details how the Of­fice's agents rounded up some 200,000 men, women, children and infants -- 99 percent of them non- combatant, innocent civilians. Incarcerated in cellars, pris­ons, and 1,255 concentration camps where typhus was rampant and torture was commonplace, the inmates subsisted on starva­tion rations. In this brief period, between 60,000 and 80,000 Germans perished at the hands of the Office.

Following his lecture, Sack answers tough questions from conference attendees. A report by Sack based on his participation in the three-day IHR conference appeared in the February 2001 issue of Esquire magazine. Rejecting the often-repeated lie that the IHR and its supporters are “haters” or bigots, he described those who spoke at and attended the gathering as “affable, open-minded, intelligent [and] intellectual.”