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This is the first attempt to explain how Jewish doctors survived extreme adversity in Auschwitz where death could occur at any moment. The ordinary Jewish slave labourer survived an average of fifteen weeks. Ross Halpin discovers that Jewish doctors survived an average of twenty months, many under the same horrendous conditions as ordinary prisoners. Despite their status as privileged prisoners Jewish doctors starved, froze, were beaten to death and executed. Many Holocaust survivors attest that luck, God and miracles were their saviors. The author suggests that surviving Auschwitz was far more complex. Interweaving the stories of Jewish doctors before and during the Holocaust Halpin develops a model that explains the anatomy of survival. According to his model the genesis of survival of extreme adversity is the will to live which must be accompanied by the necessities of life, specific personal traits and defence mechanisms. For survival all four must co-exist.

Auschwitz. --- jüdische Ärzte. --- Überleben. --- HISTORY / Holocaust. --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)

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The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before. Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Sonderkommandos --- Concentration camp inmates --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Nazi concentration camp inmates --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Ben-Atar, Roma Nutkiewicz, --- Majdanek (Concentration camp) --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Lublin --- Lublin (Concentration camp) --- Maidanek (Concentration camp) --- Vernichtungslager Maidanek --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Warsaw (Poland) --- Atar, Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-, --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)

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Holocaust memorials --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Memory --- Political aspects --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- Oświęcim (Poland) --- History. --- Historiography. --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp). --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Memorials --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Oświęcim (Poland) --- Osvětim (Poland) --- Osvent︠s︡im (Poland) --- Auschwitz (Poland) --- Oshpitsin (Poland) --- Oshvitzin (Poland) --- Oshpetzin (Poland) --- Ospinzi (Poland) --- Oshṿits (Poland) --- Oszpicin (Poland) --- אושפיצין --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Sonderkommandos. --- Jews --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Persecutions --- Bennahmias, Daniel. --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- Greece --- Grèce --- Ethnic relations. --- Relations interethniques --- Bennahmias, Danny --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊