Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

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Titel: Testimonies of Resistance : Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction. Testimonies of Resistance
Part I. Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation
Chapter 1. Knowing Cruelty: The Negation of Death and Burial in SS Violence
Chapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey? Blurring Factual and Ethical Judgements of the Sonderkommando
Part II. Witnessing from the Heart of Hell
Chapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium: On the Authorship of the First Recorded 'Sonderkommando-Manuscript' and the Discovery of the Original Letter
Chapter 4. To Read the Illegible: Techniques of Multispectral Imaging and the Manuscripts of the Jewish Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chapter 5. 'Like a True Greek': The Last Will and Testimony of Marcel Natzari
Chapter 6. Disinterred Words: The Letters of Herman Strasfogel and Marcel Nadjary
Chapter 7. The Letter of Herman Strasfogel
Chapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary
Chapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members inside the Killing Installations in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Part III. Retrospective Representations
Chapter 10. Doubly Cursed: The Sonderkommando in the Documents of the International Tracing Service
Chapter 11. Enduring Witness: David Olère's Visual Testimony
Chapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum
Chapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors
Chapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando: Sebastian Faulks and the Anxiety of Invention
Chapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2: Stripping, Fourth Letter to Gerhard Richter
Chapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando: Representation and Reality
Part IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando
Chapter 17. 'We Did Something': Framing Resistance in Cinematic Depictions of the Sonderkommando
Chapter 18. 'We Can't Know What We're Capable Of ': Approaching the 'Grey Zone' in Holocaust Film
Chapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen
Afterword. Tracing Topographies of Memory and Mourning
Index

Beteiligte: Bowman, Steven [Mitwirkende:r]; Brown, Adam [Mitwirkende:r]; Chare, Nicholas [Mitwirkende:r]; Chare, Nicholas [Herausgeber:in]; Contogouris, Ersy [Mitwirkende:r]; Didi-Huberman, Georges [Mitwirkende:r]; Fleming, K. E. [Mitwirkende:r]; Greif, Gideon [Mitwirkende:r]; Jeleniewski Seidler, Victor [Mitwirkende:r]; Karpf, Anne [Mitwirkende:r]; Kilian, Andreas [Mitwirkende:r]; Langford, Barry [Mitwirkende:r]; Mesnard, Philippe [Mitwirkende:r]; Nikityaev, Aleksandr [Mitwirkende:r]; Polian, Pavel [Mitwirkende:r]; Pollock, Griselda [Mitwirkende:r]; Stone, Dan [Mitwirkende:r]; Vice, Sue [Mitwirkende:r]; Williams, Dominic [Mitwirkende:r]; Williams, Dominic [Herausgeber:in]; Wollaston, Isabel [Mitwirkende:r]; Zemel, Carol [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2019]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (398 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781789203424

ISBN: 9781789203424

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Schlagwörter: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Personal narratives ; Sonderkommandos Poland Biography ; HISTORY / Holocaust ; 1940s ; against the odds ; auschwitz ; birkenau ; compromised men ; crematoria ; discussion books ; eyewitnesses ; gas chambers ; historical representation ; holocaust resistance ; holocaust ; interdisciplinary collection ; jewish laborers ; life and death ; outcast ; political ; revolt ; revolution ; sonderkommando ; [...]

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Beschreibung: The Sonderkommando-the "special squad" 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

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