Matters of testimony : interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz
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 ey...
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: matters of testimony
- Matters of history
- Zalman Gradowski: literature in the death factory
- Scattered selves: the stories of Leyb Langfus
- Final arrangements: Zalman Lewental's histories of resistance
- Characters and letters: Chaim Herman and Marcel Nadjary
- The camera eye: four photographs from Birkenau
- Conclusion: crossing the circle of flame