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Witnesses from the Pit of Hell. History of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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Administratorem danych osobowych jest Księgarnia Państwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Przetwarzamy je w celu przesłania odpowiedzi na zapytanie. Więcej informacji dotyczących przetwarzania danych osobowych znajduje się w polityce prywatności.
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Based on the accounts of survivors and on the analysis of a hundred archival documents, the publication is a reconstruction of the events, from 1940, when the first crematorium furnace in Auschwitz Main Camp was put into operation, to 1945, when camp was evacuated and approximately 100 Sonderkommando members were led in the march of death.
Publication includes documents, most of which were published for first time. Monography proves that, contrary to conventional opinion and despite the dectruction of traces of the Nazi crimes, there is a large number of valuable historical sources.
The author presents to a reader a tragic history of eyewitnesses of crimes, their life and work in the crematorium site, and their extremely tragic situation which they faced every day. Documents annotated with a historical commentary make up the most complete analysis of the Sonderkommando history. There were about 1,800–2,000 prisoners forced to work in the Sonderkommando during the camp’s operation. Approximately 50–60 of them survived.
Technical data
- ISBN 978-83-7704-363-9
- Date of first publication 2022
- Number of pages 235
- Weight 0.60 kg
- Type of cover hardcover
- Dimensions 16,5 x 24,3 cm
- Author Igor Bartosik