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17 June 2008 | Polish Jew, Henryk Mandelbaum, passed away at the age of 86.

He was born in Olkusz in May 1922
In #Auschwitz from 22 April 1944.
No. 181970
He escaped during the evacuation.
One of the few surviving Sonderkommando prisoners forced to work in gas chambers and crematoria.
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Listen to our #podcast about the fate of #Sonderkommando prisoners: https://youtu.be/NIaRnw3hZX4

À l’épicentre de la destruction des #Juifs d’Europe : #Sonderkommando, »Arbeitsjuden«, »Brigades de la mort«

Colloque international | 18 & 19 mai | 9h30 | Mémorial de la #Shoah | traduction simultanée

Programme & inscription : https://www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/informations-detaillees/seminare/SeminarTime/detail/im-epizentrum-der-vernichtung-der-europaeischen-juden4302.html

en coop. avec @auschwitzmuseum

@jfinger

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Auschwitz Album ✧

Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz II–Birkenau from the Auschwitz Album, a photographic record of the Holocaust during World War II. It and the Sonderkommando photographs are among the small number of visual documents that show the operations of Auschwitz II–Birkenau, the German extermination camp in occupied Poland. Originally ti...

#Auschwitz #BernhardWalter #Poland #Sonderkommando #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_Album

The commander of Gleiwitz I sub-camp Otto Moll (in the picture), who was known as an expert in burning bodies in trenches, was promoted to head of all crematoria. Sonderkommando was also enlarged - from 420 to 620 prisoners.

🔊 Listen to our #podcast about the fate of #Sonderkommando prisoners. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou/a-a74in99

Das nächste Buch ich in meinem Podcast - auflesen - lese beinhaltet die schriftlichen Hinterlassenschaften eines #Sonderkommando aus dem Konzentrationslager #Auschwitz, Zalmen Gradowski, welcher 1944 in dem bekannten Aufstand gegen die SS ums Leben kam.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harold-smith13/episodes/Zalmen-Gradowski---Im-Herzen-der-Hlle-e2fclhb

One of the darkest chapters of the history of #Auschwitz is undoubtedly the story of the Sonderkommando - prisoners, mainly Jews - forced by the Germans to work in gas chambers & crematoria.

🔊 Our #podcast about the fate of #Sonderkommando prisoners.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou

Was diesen aktualisierten Band so besonders macht: Er vereint weltweit erstmalig alle wesentlichen Dokumente und Zeugnisse Nyiszlis zu seiner Leidenszeit in #Auschwitz und präsentiert seinen Bericht zum #Sonderkommando erstmals vollständig in einer überarbeiteten Übersetzung. Herausgeber und Sonderkommando-Experte Andreas Kilian, Gründer des Portals https://sonderkommando-studien.de , ordnet den Bericht Nyiszlis ein und gibt einen Überblick über dessen Editions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte. /2

Falls die AfD vor der nächsten Wahl noch nicht verboten ist, wäre dies¹ Pflichtlektüre für die, die #Faschisten wählen wollen.

»Wenn ihr so wollt, ist das eine Hölle, doch ist die Hölle von Dante unwahrscheinlich lächerlich im Vergleich zur echten Hölle hier, und wir sind Augenzeugen, die nicht überleben dürfen.« Herman #Strasfogel, im #Sonderkommando im #KZ #Auschwitz_Birkenau in einem Brief an seine Frau und Tochter kurz vor seinem Tod.

¹ https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/im-jenseits-der-menschlichkeit/

@karldietzverlag

der in Fortsetzungen ein halbes Jahr später in der Budapester Zeitung Világ erschienen ist.
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Herausgegeben von Friedrich Herber (1939–2013), bis 2002 Oberarzt am Institut für Rechtsmedizin Universität Leipzig, und dem Historiker Andreas Kilian (*1974), der seit 1992 die Geschichte der #Sonderkommando|s in #Auschwitz erforscht, Autor od. Bearbeiter von mehr als 90 Veröffentlichungen zum Thema und Gründer des Portals: https://sonderkommando-studien.de
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NEU bei uns, jetzt lesen: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/im-jenseits-der-menschlichkeit-2. /3

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.

In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #Germany #otd #Sonderkommando #France #Warsaw #Poland #art #artist

7 October 1944 | Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando at the German Nazi camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau organized a revolt. They set crematorium IV on fire, causing serious damage, as well as attacked the SS men in the vicinity. 1/5

#Auschwitz #history #Sonderkommando #Holocaust #Jews #revolt #uprising #resisntance #OnThatDay @histodons

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The area behind gas chamber and crematorium V where corpses of murdered people were burnt in pits.

In the historical picture you can see prisoners of the Sonderkommando. They were mainly Jewish prisoners who were forced to work in gas chambers and crematoria.

🔊 Our #podcast about the fate of #Sonderkommando prisoners.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou/a-a74in99

"David Olère. The One Who Survived Crematorium III"

The publication includes almost all unique works depicting the artist’s traumatic experience in the camp.

Buy online: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/david-olre-the-one-who-survived-crematorium-iii,316.html#2

#book #history #Auschwitz #Sonderkommando #Holocaust #catalogue #paintings #drawings #Jews #memory #ww2

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.

In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

🔊 Our podcast about the fate of #Sonderkommando prisoners: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou

#Auschwitz #history #Jews #Holocaust #Shoah #art #painting #artist #Olere #Sonderkommando #podcast #education #ww2 #memory

🔊 Listen to our podcast about the resistance in the Sonderkommando and the revolt organized there on 7 October 1944:
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-21-The-Revolt-of-Sonderkommando-Prisoners-e1k3c4s

#history #Auschwitz #Sonderkommando #podcast #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #resistence #education #Remember #NeverForget

29 December 1923 | An Italian Jew, Shlomo Venezia, was born in Thessaloniki.

In #Auschwitz from 11 April 1944.
No. 182727
Forced to work in the Sonderkommando
He survived & passed away in 2012.

Learn about the Sonderkommando, prisoners at Auschwitz, mainly Jews, who were forced by the SS to work in gas chambers and crematoria:

🔹 lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_10_sonder/
🔹 podcast: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou/a-a74in99
🔹 book: http://auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/swiadkowie-z-dna-piekla-historia-sonderkommando-w-kl-auschwitz,330.html#2

#Auschwitz #history #Jews #Sonderkommando #Holocaust @histodons

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium IV.

The gas chamber was divided into three smaller rooms and had a total of 236.78 square meters. The crematorium had one eight-oven furnace.

The building was set on fire by the #Sonderkommando prisoners during the revolt on 7 October 1944:
http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_10_sonder/

#Birkenau #Auschwitz #memorial #site #gaschamber #crematorium #crematorium #ruins #remains #photography #evideNCE #NeverForget #history #Holocaust @histodons @museum

The Auschwitz Memorial published a book with an interview with Henryk Mandelbaum.

"I was at the Auschwitz crematorium..."

Find it here: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/type-of-publication/memoirs-and-accounts/i-was-at-the-auschwitz-crematorium-a-conversation-with-henryk-mandelbaum-former-prisoner-and-,154.html

#Auschwitz #history #Sonderkommando #Holocaust #Shoah #book #ww2 #Jews #memory #interview #museum

Salmon Lewental was one of the member of the resistance and one of the leaders of the revolt on October 7, 1944.

He left a manuscript that was found in the ground near ruins of one of the crematories in October 1962.

See our online lesson about the history of Sonderkommando: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_10_sonder/

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Jews #Shoah #Sonderkommando #resistance #revolt #history @histodons #education #elearning

10 December 1942 | A transport of some 2,500 Polish Jews arrived at Auschwitz from Małkinia. 524 men were registered and about 1,976 people were killed in the gas chambers.

One of the people in this transport was Zalmen Lewental who was later selected to the Sonderkommando that was forced to operate the gas chambers and crematoria.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #OTD #Małkinia #Nazis #Germany #history #people #memory #Sonderkommando

"Witnesses from the Pit of Hell."

The most complete reconstruction of the history of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz based on the accounts of survivors and on the analysis of a hundred archival documents.

Buy in our online bookstore: https://auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/swiadkowie-z-dna-piekla-historia-sonderkommando-w-kl-auschwitz,330.html#2

#book #Auschwitz #Sonderkommando #history #Holocaust #Shoah #prisoners

3 December 1942 | SS escorted around 400 Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando from Birkenau to Auschwitz I. They had been forced to dig up & burn ca. 107,000 corpses buried in mass graves. They were led into the gas chamber by crematorium I and killed.

The story of Sonderkommando is one of the darkest chapters of the history of Auschwitz.

Listen to our podcast about the fate of Sonderkommando prisoners.
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-13-The-fate-of-Sonderkommando-prisoners-e1bv3ou

#Auschwitz #history #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #Sonderkommando