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Matters of Testimony

Matters of Testimony

Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/12/2015

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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.

ISBN:
9781782389989
9781782389989
Category:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-12-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm
Weight:
0kg

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