Title We wept without tears : testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz / Gideon Greif.

Publication Info.	New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, [2005]
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Description	1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	The Sonderkommandos primarily consisted of Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Germans to facilitate in their own mass extermination. This book consists of interviews with the few surviving Sonderkommandos, describing the unparalleled horror of death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Contents	The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau : portrait and self-image -- Josef Sackar : "To survive, so the truth would come out" -- Abraham and Shlomo Dragon : "Together -- in despair and in hope" -- Ya'akov Gabai : "I'll get out of here!" -- Eliezer Eisenschmidt : "Thanks to one Polish family ..." -- Shaul Chazan : "Life didn't matter anymore, death was too close" -- Leon Cohen : "We were dehumanized, we were robots" -- Ya'akov Silberberg : "One day in the crematorium felt like a year."
Note	Print version record.
Language	Translated from the Hebrew.
Subject	Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
	Auschwitz (Concentration camp) (OCoLC)fst00723014
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
	Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Interviews.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
	Sonderkommandos -- Poland.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
	HISTORY -- Holocaust.
	HISTORY -- General.
	Sonderkommandos. (OCoLC)fst01126052
	Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
Chronological Term	1939 - 1945
Genre/Form	Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
	Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Added Title	Wir weinten tränenlos--. English
Other Form:	Print version: Graif, Gidʻon. Wir weinten tränenlos--. English. We wept without tears. Coral Gables, FL : The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami ; New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, 2005 9780300106510 (DLC) 2005927410 (OCoLC)59352647
ISBN	9780300131987 (electronic bk.)
	0300131984 (electronic bk.)

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