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Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation and After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint , and the co-editor, with Dominic Williams, of Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony . Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary poetry and the Holocaust. In addition to co-editing Representing Auschwitz , he has co-edited, with Fabio A. Durão, Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Matters of Testimony Chapter 1. Matters of History Chapter 2. Zalman Gradowski: Literature in the Death Factory Chapter 3. Scattered Selves: The Stories of Leyb Langfus Chapter 4. Final Arrangements: Zalman Lewental's Histories of Resistance Chapter 5. Characters and Letters: Chaim Herman and Marcel Nadjary Chapter 6. The Camera Eye: Four Photographs from Birkenau Conclusion: Crossing the Circle of Flame Appendix Index ...
