Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Nicholas Chare, Dominic WilliamsIn 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.
Year:
2015
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Language:
english
Pages:
264
ISBN 10:
1782389997
ISBN 13:
9781782389996
File:
EPUB, 3.06 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015