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...
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Matters of Testimony
Chapter 1. Matters of History
Chapter 2. Zalman Gradowski: Literature in the Death Factory
Chapter 3...
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Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary po...
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