03015nam 2200577 450 991081851910332120170919044105.01-78238-999-710.1515/9781782389996(CKB)3710000000576887(EBL)4089590(SSID)ssj0001598807(PQKBManifestationID)16300446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001598807(PQKBWorkID)13735267(PQKB)10356839(MiAaPQ)EBC4089590(DE-B1597)636864(DE-B1597)9781782389996(EXLCZ)99371000000057688720160209h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMatters of testimony interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz /Nicholas Chare and Dominic WilliamsNew York ;Oxford, England :Berghahn Books,2016.©20161 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78533-352-6 1-78238-998-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Matters of Testimony; Imprint; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction: Matters of Testimony; Chapter 1: Matters of History; Chapter 2: Zalman Gradowski - Literature in the Death Factory; Chapter 3: Scattered Selves - The Stories of Leyb Langfus; Chapter 4: Final Arrangements - Zalman Lewental's Histories of Resistance; Chapter 5: Characters and Letters - Chaim Herman and Marcel Nadjary; Chapter 6: The Camera Eye - Four Photographs from Birkenau; Conclusion: Crossing the Circle of Flame; Bibliography; Appendices; IndexIn 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.SonderkommandosPolandOświęcimBiographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)PolandOświęcimPersonal narrativesSonderkommandosHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)940.53/1853858NQ 2360rvkChare Nicholas1137485Williams DominicMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818519103321Matters of testimony3922123UNINA