Matters of testimony : interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz /

Matters of testimony : interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz /

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Author / Creator:Chare, Nicholas, author.
Imprint:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Personal narratives.
Sonderkommandos.
Poland -- Oświęcim.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588716
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Other authors / contributors:Williams, Dominic (Dominic Paul), author.
ISBN:9781782389996
1782389997
9781782389989
1782389989
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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 following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.--
Other form:Print version: Chare, Nicholas. Matters of testimony 9781782389989

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