Testimonies of Resistance
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Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

  1. 398 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781789203417
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781789203424
Topic
History
Subtopic
Holocaust History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Testimonies of Resistance
  2. Contents
  3. Figures and Tables
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Note on Transliteration
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I. Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation
  9. Chapter 1. Knowing Cruelty
  10. Chapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey?
  11. Part II. Witnessing from the Heart of Hell
  12. Chapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium
  13. Chapter 4. To Read the Illegible
  14. Chapter 5. ‘Like a True Greek’
  15. Chapter 6. Disinterred Words
  16. Chapter 7. The Letter of Hersz Strasfogel
  17. Chapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary
  18. Chapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members
  19. Part III. Retrospective Representations
  20. Chapter 10. Doubly Cursed
  21. Chapter 11. Enduring Witness
  22. Chapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum
  23. Chapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors
  24. Chapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando
  25. Chapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2
  26. Chapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando
  27. Part IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando
  28. Chapter 17. ‘We Did Something’
  29. Chapter 18. ‘We Can’t Know What We’re Capable of’
  30. Chapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen
  31. Afterword
  32. Index

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