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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Auschwitz Sonderkommando
    sub title: Testimonies, Histories, Representations
  name:
    name part: Chare, Nicholas.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Williams, Dominic.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 278 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Figuring the Sonderkommando in History -- Chapter 2. Acts of Deposition: Gender and Testimony in the Scrolls of Auschwitz -- Chapter 3. Tragic Pictures: The Sonderkommando and their Photographs -- Chapter 4. The Trials of Witnessing: Legal Testimony and the Sonderkommando -- Chapter 5. Figure Studies from the Grey Zone: David Olère -- Chapter 6 -- Matters of Video Testimony -- Chapter 7. The Voice of Bronze: Filip Müller and Shoah.
  note: by Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Civilization-History
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-1492-
  subject:
    topic: History of World War II and the Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: Memory Studies
  subject:
    topic: Cultural History
  subject:
    topic: History of Modern Europe
  classification: D731-838
  classification: 940.53
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
  identifier: 9783030114916
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11491-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 190215
    record change date: 20191028151916.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-11491-6