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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: matters of testimony -- Matters of history -- Zalman Gradowski: literature in the death factory -- Scattered selves: the stories of Leyb Langfus -- Final arrangements: Zalman Lewental's histories of resistance -- Characters and letters: Chaim Herman and Marcel Nadjary -- The camera eye: four photographs from Birkenau -- Conclusion: crossing the circle of flame. |
| 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.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Birkenau (Concentration camp)
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Birkenau (Concentration camp) |
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
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Sonderkommandos. |
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Poland -- Oświęcim. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Personal narratives.
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
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Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Dominic (Dominic Paul), author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chare, Nicholas. Matters of testimony 9781782389989 (DLC) 2015013049 (OCoLC)906936745 |
| ISBN |
9781782389996 (electronic book) |
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1782389997 (electronic book) |
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9781782389989 |
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1782389989 |
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