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MATTERS OF TESTIMONY IBD

BERGHAHN BOOKS
11 / 2016
9781785333521
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Sinopsis

In 1944, members of theáSonderkommando&mdash,the &ldquo,special squads,&rdquo, composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process&mdash,buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these &ldquo,Scrolls of Auschwitz,&rdquo, which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp&rsquo,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.

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