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Matters of testimony : interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz / Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chare, Nicholas, author.
- Williams, Dominic, -2007, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birkenau (Concentration camp).
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Sonderkommandos--Poland--Oświęcim--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Oświęcim--Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- In 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.
- Contents:
- 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; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-691-X
- 1-78238-999-7
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