The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Testimonies, Histories, Representations /

• Main Authors: Chare, Nicholas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Williams, Dominic (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; History, Modern.; Historiography.; Civilization-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Modern History.; Memory Studies.; Cultural History.; History of Modern Europe.

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 wer...

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.