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Memoirs of a French Jewish woman, written in 1946 and published in 1996 with only minute corrections. Maous, born in 1915, was arrested together with her husband in April 1944 in the remote village of Lamastre, sent to Drancy, and deported from there in May 1944 to Auschwitz. Maous worked in a kommando unit in Birkenau. She was hospitalized at the time of the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, ...

Contains interviews with seven survivors of the Sonderkommandos now living in Israel (Josef Sackar, Abraham and Shlomo Dragon, Jaacov Gabai, Eliezer Eisenschmidt, Shaul Chasan, Leon Cohen), who worked in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They describe their experiences under Nazi occupation in their home countries (Greece, Poland, and Belarus); their arrival in Auschwitz; the details ...

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Hamburg, 2012. 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

323 p. : ill. ; 31 cm

Based on official Nazi documents from German, Polish, Israeli, and especially recently-accessible Soviet archives, analyzes the establishment and the technical utilization of gas chambers and crematoria for the implementation of mass murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. States that the killing with Zyklon B was carried out between December 1941-November 1944. Contrary to evaluations of other researchers of ...

Memoirs of the author (born in 1913 in Salonika), recounting his experiences under Nazi occupation in Salonika, the deportation to Auschwitz, and the loss of all his family. During his first month in the camp he was first violinist in the prisoners' orchestra in Birkenau; after that he was employed as an engineer at the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke. He survived the death march in January 1945 and imprisonment ...

"The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The ...