Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, Shlomo Venezia (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009), xvii + 202 pp., hardcover 22.95, pbk. 14.95
The SS did not plan on prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau's Sonderkommando surviving. It would be undesirable for them to transmit their knowledge, and they usually were killed after a few weeks of service in the crematoria. But Shlomo Venezia survived. And yet, for decades he kept silent about hi...
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 316-319 |
| Review of: | Inside the gas chambers (Cambridge, UK [u.a.] : Polity Press, 2009) (Steinbacher, Sybille)
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