ISBN: 9781785333521 - matters of testimony: interpreting the scrolls of auschwitz (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In 1944, members of the Sonderkommandothe special squads, composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination processburied 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 camps 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…