Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the scrolls of Auschwitz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23512940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams (0000-0002-7387-8928) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Matters of testimony (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/9781782389989 |
| OpenAlex | W4396716418 |
| Open Library | OL30394163M |
| ISBN | 9781782389989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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.
Epistemology · Political science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Auschwitz (Concentration camp) · biography · Birkenau (Concentration camp) · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866 · Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives · Oświęcim · Personal narratives · Poland · Sonderkommandos
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |