Matters of Testimony : Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

by Nicholas Chare

2020-07-08 15:13:35

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 Ausc... Read more

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.

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File size9x6x0.56inches
Print pages264
PublisherBerghahn Books
Publication date November 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781785333521
Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal.Mitchell B. Frank is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton Universit...

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