We wept without tears : testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz / Gideon Greif.
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.
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| Other title: | Wir weinten tränenlos--. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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New Haven, Conn. ; London :
Yale University Press,
©2005.
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Table of 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."