LEADER 03636nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910812862903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-72280-4 010 $a9786611722807 010 $a0-300-13198-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300131987 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472188 035 $a(EBL)3419874 035 $a(OCoLC)923587322 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269582 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192502 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269582 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247606 035 $a(PQKB)10848077 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419874 035 $a(DE-B1597)485603 035 $a(OCoLC)1091664346 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300131987 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167923 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172280 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472188 100 $a20041209d2005 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWe wept without tears $etestimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz /$fGideon Greif 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-10651-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tPhotographs --$t1. The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Portrait and Self-Image --$t2. Josef Sackar: ''To Survive, so the Truth Would Come Out'' --$t3. Abraham and Shlomo Dragon: ''Together-in Despair and in Hope'' --$t4. Ya'akov Gabai: ''I'll Get Out of Here!'' --$t5. Eliezer Eisenschmidt: ''Thanks to One Polish Family . . .'' --$t6. Shaul Chazan: ''Life Didn't Matter Anymore, Death Was Too Close'' --$t7. Leon Cohen: ''We Were Dehumanized, We Were Robots'' --$t8. Ya'akov Silberberg: ''One Day in the Crematorium Felt Like a Year'' --$tNotes 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$vPersonal narratives 606 $aSonderkommandos$zPoland$vInterviews 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aSonderkommandos 676 $a940.531853858 700 $aGraif$b Gid?on$0539861 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812862903321 996 $aWe wept without tears$94086610 997 $aUNINA