Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Contents\nList of Figures and Tables\nForeword\nAcknowledgements\nNote on Transliteration\nIntroduction. Testimonies of Resistance\nPart I. Historical and Ethical Questions of Representation\nChapter 1. Knowing Cruelty: The Negation of Death and Burial in SS Violence\nChapter 2. What Makes the Grey Zone Grey? Blurring Factual and Ethical Judgements of the Sonderkommando\nPart II. Witnessing from the Heart of Hell\nChapter 3. Farewell Letter from the Crematorium: On the Authorship of the First Recorded ‘Sonderkommando-Manuscript’ and the Discovery of the Original Letter\nChapter 4. To Read the Illegible: Techniques of Multispectral Imaging and the Manuscripts of the Jewish Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau\nChapter 5. ‘Like a True Greek’: The Last Will and Testimony of Marcel Natzari\nChapter 6. Disinterred Words: The Letters of Herman Strasfogel and Marcel Nadjary\nChapter 7. The Letter of Herman Strasfogel\nChapter 8. The Letter of Marcel Nadjary\nChapter 9. The Religious Life of Sonderkommando Members inside the Killing Installations in Auschwitz-Birkenau\nPart III. Retrospective Representations\nChapter 10. Doubly Cursed: The Sonderkommando in the Documents of the International Tracing Service\nChapter 11. Enduring Witness: David Olère’s Visual Testimony\nChapter 12. The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum\nChapter 13. Early and Late Testimonies of the Sonderkommando Survivors\nChapter 14. From Special Operations Executive to Sonderkommando: Sebastian Faulks and the Anxiety of Invention\nChapter 15. Out of the Plan, Out of the Plane 2: Stripping, Fourth Letter to Gerhard Richter\nChapter 16. Greeks in the Birkenau Sonderkommando: Representation and Reality\nPart IV. Cinema and the Sonderkommando\nChapter 17. ‘We Did Something’: Framing Resistance in Cinematic Depictions of the Sonderkommando\nChapter 18. ‘We Can’t Know What We’re Capable Of ’: Approaching the ‘Grey Zone’ in Holocaust Film\nChapter 19. The Sonderkommando on Screen\nAfterword. Tracing Topographies of Memory and Mourning\nIndex