Testimonies of Resistance (eBook)

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
398 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-349-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Sonderkommando-the "e;special squad"e; of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau-comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 1940s • against the odds • Auschwitz • Birkenau • compromised men • Crematoria • discussion books • eyewitnesses • gas chambers • Historical Representation • Holocaust • holocaust resistance • Interdisciplinary collection • jewish laborers • Life and Death • Outcast • Political • Revolt • Revolution • Sonderkommando • Special Squad • World History • ww ii history
• ISBN-10: 1-80539-349-9 / 1805393499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80539-349-8 / 9781805393498