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000350649 1001_ $$aVenezia, Shlomo,$$d1923-2012.
000350649 24010 $$aSonderkommando.$$lEnglish
000350649 24510 $$aInside the gas chambers :$$beight months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz /$$cShlomo Venezia ; in collaboration with Béatrice Prasquier ; foreword by Simone Veil ; historical notes and additional material by Marcello Pezzetti and Umberto Gentiloni ; edited by Jean Mouttapa ; translated by Andrew Brown.
000350649 250__ $$aEnglish ed.
000350649 260__ $$aCambridge, UK ;$$aMalden, MA :$$bPolity ;$$a[Washington, D.C.] :$$bPublished in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,$$cc2009.
000350649 300__ $$axv, 202 p., [8] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c22 cm.
000350649 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references.
000350649 5050_ $$aLife in Greece before the deportation -- The first month in Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Sonderkommando: initiation -- Sonderkommando: the work continues -- The Revolt of the Sonderkommando and the dismantling of the crematoria -- Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee.
000350649 520__ $$aThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread, he agreed to become a 'Sonderkommando', without realising what this entailed. He soon found himself a member of the 'special unit' responsible for removing the corpses from the gas chambers and burning their bodies. Dispassionately, he details the grim round of daily tasks, evokes the terror inspired by the man in charge of the crematoria, 'Angel of Death' Otto Moll, and recounts the attempts made by some of the prisoners to escape, including the revolt of October 1944. It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged to tell their tale - but, as a 'Sonderkommando', Shlomo Venezia was given this horrific privilege. He knew that, having witnessed the unspeakable, he in turn would probably be eliminated by the SS in case he ever told his tale. He survived: this is his story.
000350649 60010 $$aVenezia, Shlomo,$$d1923-2012$$vInterviews.
000350649 61020 $$aBirkenau (Concentration camp)
000350649 61020 $$aAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
000350649 650_0 $$aJews$$zGreece$$zThessalonikē$$vBiography.
000350649 650_0 $$aSonderkommandos$$zPoland$$zOświęcim$$vBiography.
000350649 650_0 $$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$$vPersonal narratives.
000350649 650_0 $$aGas chambers$$zPoland$$zOświęcim.
000350649 7001_ $$aPrasquier, Béatrice.
000350649 7001_ $$aMouttapa, Jean.
000350649 85200 $$bgen$$hD805.5.B57$$iV4613$$i2009
000350649 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0905/2009275797.html
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