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Author Chare, Nicholas, author.

Title Matters of testimony : interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz / Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams
Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016

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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
Summary 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 accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these "Scrolls of Auschwitz, " which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast
Birkenau (Concentration camp) fast
Subject Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Personal narratives
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Sonderkommandos
Poland -- Oświęcim
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Dominic (Dominic Paul), author.
ISBN 9781782389996
1782389997