Matters of Testimony : : Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz / / Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams.
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness ac...
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