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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

by Shlomo Venezia, Beatrice Prasquier · 2007

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It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged to tell their tale - but, as a 'Sonderkommando', Shlomo Venezia was given this horrific privilege. He knew that, having witnessed the unspeakable, he in turn would probably be eliminated by the SS in case he ever told his tale. He survived: this is his story.

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