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The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be “members of staff” of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before.
Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the “Final Solution of the Jewish Problem,” but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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This disturbing book consists of a series of interviews with Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau who had been forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination of other prisoners. These Sonderkommando not only describe the unimaginable horror of their own experiences but also provide direct testimony of the boundless cruelty and deceit of the Nazis.
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Gideon Greif is a researcher at Yad VaShem, Israel, the principal institution in the world studying the history of the Holocaust. He also was visiting professor at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0300106513
- ISBN 13 9780300106510
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
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ISBN 13: 9780300106510
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