Description |
1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
The Sonderkommandos primarily consisted of Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Germans to facilitate in their own mass extermination. This book consists of interviews with the few surviving Sonderkommandos, describing the unparalleled horror of death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
Contents |
The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau : portrait and self-image -- Josef Sackar : "To survive, so the truth would come out" -- Abraham and Shlomo Dragon : "Together -- in despair and in hope" -- Ya'akov Gabai : "I'll get out of here!" -- Eliezer Eisenschmidt : "Thanks to one Polish family ..." -- Shaul Chazan : "Life didn't matter anymore, death was too close" -- Leon Cohen : "We were dehumanized, we were robots" -- Ya'akov Silberberg : "One day in the crematorium felt like a year." |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Translated from the Hebrew. |
Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Interviews.
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Sonderkommandos. |
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Poland. |
Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
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Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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Interviews.
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Added Title |
Wir weinten tränenlos--. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005090916
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Other Form: |
Print version: Graif, Gidʻon. Wir weinten tränenlos--. English. We wept without tears. Coral Gables, FL : The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami ; New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, 2005 9780300106510 (DLC) 2005927410 (OCoLC)59352647 |
ISBN |
9780300131987 (electronic book) |
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0300131984 (electronic book) |
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0300106513 (cased) |
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9780300106510 (cased) |
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