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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.

Sonderkommandos --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Kommandos spéciaux --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Biography --- Personal narratives --- Biographies --- Récits personnels --- Birkenau (Concentration camp) --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- Biography. --- Sonderkommandos - Poland - Oświęcim - Biography --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland - Oświęcim - Personal narratives --- Nazi concentration camp inmates --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- 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) --- Auschwitz II (Concentration camp) --- Brzezinka (Concentration camp) --- בירקנאו