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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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: Matters of Testimony
- Chapter 1 Matters of History
- Chapter 2 Zalman Gradowski: Literature in the Death Factory
- Chapter 3 Scattered Selves: The Stories of Leyb Langfus
- Chapter 4 Final Arrangements: Zalman Lewental’s Histories of Resistance
- Chapter 5 Characters and Letters: Chaim Herman and Marcel Nadjary
- Chapter 6 The Camera Eye: Four Photographs from Birkenau
- Conclusion: Crossing the Circle of Flame
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Index