We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, Gideon Greif (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 [German eds. 1994, 1999; Hebrew ed. 1999]), 400 pp, 55.00
Gideon Greif: How could you work so long in that hell?, Ya'akov Gabai: It's true that people who worked in [Auschwitz-Birkenau] looked death in the eye every day, they were beaten, they had other tragedies. But we saw the most terrible things of all. We did the dirty work of the Holocaust....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 132-135 |
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| Summary: | Gideon Greif: How could you work so long in that hell?, Ya'akov Gabai: It's true that people who worked in [Auschwitz-Birkenau] looked death in the eye every day, they were beaten, they had other tragedies. But we saw the most terrible things of all. We did the dirty work of the Holocaust. For eight months I worked with the Sonderkommando…. It was grueling labor, especially for the first few days. Everyone was afraid that they'd find relatives among the corpses. The first time was the hardest. But really, believe me, you get used to everything., Gideon Greif: Did you have time to reflect about what you were seeing?, Ya'akov Gabai: At first it was very painful to see all of this. I couldn't grasp what my eyes were seeing—that all that was left of a human being was half a kilogram of ashes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm013 |