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Inside the gas chambers : eight months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz / Shlomo Venezia ; in collaboration with Béatrice Prasquier ; foreword by Simone Veil ; historical notes and additional material by Marcello Pezzetti and Umberto Gentiloni ; edited by Jean Mouttapa ; translated by Andrew Brown.

Author: Venezia, Shlomo, 1923-2012.

Edition Statement:English ed.

Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity ; [Washington, D.C.] : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2009.

Descriptionxv, 202 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Preface (Simone Veil). Note (Beatrice Prasquier). Acknowledgments. I. Life in Greece before the Deportation. II. The First Month in Auschwitz-Birkenau. III. Sonderkommando: Initiation. IV. Sonderkommando: The Work Continues. V. The Revolt of the Sonderkommando and the Dismantling of the Crematoria. VI. Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee. Historical Notes. The Shoah, Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando (Marcello Pezzetti). Italy in Greece: A Short History of a Major Failure (Umberto Gentiloni). About David Olere. Selected Bibliography.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-202).



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Venezia, Shlomo, 1923-2012.
Uniform Title
Sonderkommando. English
Subject:
Venezia, Shlomo, 1923- -- Interviews.
Subject:
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonike -- Biography.
Sonderkommandos -- Poland -- Oswiecim -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Gas chambers -- Poland -- Oswiecim.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Primary sources.
Autobiographies.
Interviews.
Contributor
Prasquier, Béatrice.
Mouttapa, Jean.