Title Testimonies of resistance : representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando / edited by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams

Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Testimonies of Resistance; Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation; Chapter 1. Knowing Cruelty; Chapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey?; Part II. Witnessing from the Heart of Hell; Chapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium; Chapter 4. To Read the Illegible; Chapter 5. 'Like a True Greek'; Chapter 6. Disinterred Words; Chapter 7. The Letter of Hersz Strasfogel; Chapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary; Chapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members Part III. Retrospective RepresentationsChapter 10. Doubly Cursed; Chapter 11. Enduring Witness; Chapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum; Chapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors; Chapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando; Chapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2; Chapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando; Part IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando; Chapter 17. 'We Did Something'; Chapter 18. 'We Can't Know What We're Capable of'; Chapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen; Afterword; Index Summary The Sonderkommando--the "special squad" of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau--comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented--by themselves and by others--both during and after the Holocaust Analysis 1940s against the odds auschwitz birkenau compromised men crematoria discussion books eyewitnesses gas chambers historical representation holocaust resistance holocaust interdisciplinary collection jewish laborers life and death outcast political revolt revolution sonderkommando special squad world history ww ii history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022) Subject Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography Birkenau (Concentration camp) -- Biography SUBJECT Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast Birkenau (Concentration camp) fast Subject Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Influence HISTORY / Holocaust Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Sonderkommandos Poland Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Personal narratives Form Electronic book Author Chare, Nicholas, editor Williams, Dominic, editor LC no. 2019016147 ISBN 1789203422 9781789203424

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