The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations

by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams

Book Overview

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030114902
• ISBN13: 9783030114909
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"