Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

by Dominic Williams (Author), Dominic Williams (Author), Nicholas Chare (Author)

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  2016

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  In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando- special squads of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.