- Summary
- "The Sonderkommando--the "special squad" of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau--comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented--by themselves and by others--both during and after the Holocaust."-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Berghahn, 2019
©2019
- Locale
- Poland
Pologne
Oświęcim (Pologne)
- Contents
-
Introduction : Testimonies of Resistance : Part I : Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation
Chapter 1. Knowing Cruelty : The negation of death and burial in SS violence
Chapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey? : Blurring factual and ethical judgements of the Sounderkommando
Part II : Witnessing from the Heart of Hell
Chapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium ; Chapter 4. To Read the Illegible : techniques of multispectral : imaging and the manuscripts of the Jewish sounderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chapter 5. 'Like a True Greek'
Chapter 6. Disinterred Words
Chapter 7. The Letter of Hersz Strasfogel
Chapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary
Chapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members
Part III. Retrospective Representations
Chapter 10. Doubly Cursed
Chapter 11. Enduring Witness
Chapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum
Chapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors
Chapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando; Chapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2 : Chapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando
Part IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando ; Chapter 17. 'We Did Something"
Chapter 18. 'We Can't Know What We're Capable of'
Chapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen; Afterword; Index
- Other Authors/Editors
- Chare, Nicholas, editor.
Williams, Dominic, editor.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Testimonies of Resistance : Part I : Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation -- Chapter 1. Knowing Cruelty : The negation of death and burial in SS violence -- Chapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey? : Blurring factual and ethical judgements of the Sounderkommando -- Part II : Witnessing from the Heart of Hell -- Chapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium ; Chapter 4. To Read the Illegible : techniques of multispectral : imaging and the manuscripts of the Jewish sounderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Chapter 5. 'Like a True Greek' -- Chapter 6. Disinterred Words -- Chapter 7. The Letter of Hersz Strasfogel -- Chapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary -- Chapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members -- Part III. Retrospective Representations -- Chapter 10. Doubly Cursed -- Chapter 11. Enduring Witness -- Chapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum -- Chapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors -- Chapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando; Chapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2 : Chapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando -- Part IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando ; Chapter 17. 'We Did Something" -- Chapter 18. 'We Can't Know What We're Capable of' -- Chapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen; Afterword; Index
