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Author Graif, Gidʻon, 1951- author

Title We wept without tears : testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz / Gideon Greif
Published New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau : portrait and self-image -- Josef Sackar : "To survive, so the truth would come out" -- Abraham and Shlomo Dragon : "Together -- in despair and in hope" -- Ya'akov Gabai : "I'll get out of here!" -- Eliezer Eisenschmidt : "Thanks to one Polish family ..." -- Shaul Chazan : "Life didn't matter anymore, death was too close" -- Leon Cohen : "We were dehumanized, we were robots" -- Ya'akov Silberberg : "One day in the crematorium felt like a year."
Summary The Sonderkommandos primarily consisted of Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Germans to facilitate in their own mass extermination. This book consists of interviews with the few surviving Sonderkommandos, describing the unparalleled horror of death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the Hebrew
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Subject Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast
Auschwitz / Konzentrationslager. swd
Subject Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Interviews
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
HISTORY -- General.
Sonderkommandos
Poland
Genre/Form interviews.
Interviews
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Interviews.
Récits personnels.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300131987
0300131984
1281722804
9781281722805
9786611722807
6611722807
Other Titles Wir weinten tränenlos--. English