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Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz Nicholas Chare
Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Nicholas Chare
In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.
276 pages, 12 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781782389989 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 276 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 161 × 20 mm · 526 g |
| Language | English |
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