We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book by Gid'on Graif. First published in Hebrew in 1999, the work was translated into English in 2005. Graif's book based on a series of interviews with surviving Sonderkommandos - Jewish prisoners who survived by working staff jobs at the Geman death camps. The writer, Gideon Greif, is a researcher at Yad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel, the principal institution in the...
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We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book by Gid'on Graif. First published in Hebrew in 1999, the work was translated into English in 2005. Graif's book based on a series of interviews with surviving Sonderkommandos - Jewish prisoners who survived by working staff jobs at the Geman death camps. The writer, Gideon Greif, is a researcher at Yad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel, the principal institution in the world studying the history of the Holocaust. He had also served as a visiting professor at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, the University of Miami.
The Sonderkommando, that is, the work units of Nazi death camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process during The Holocaust, of Auschwitz and Birkenau, which was a part of the Auschwitz, consisted mainly of Jewish prisoners. The book is based on intensive and extensive interviews of the survivors of the members of these particular units of the Sonderkommandos...
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