Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785333526
• ISBN13: 9781785333521
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"