Matters of Testimony
：Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Publication subTitle ：Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Author： Chare Nicholas;Williams Dominic
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781782389996
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781782389989
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;K1 World History
Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏,世界史
Language： ENG
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Description
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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