The Auschwitz Sonderkommando (eBook)
VII, 278 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-11491-6 (ISBN)
This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.
Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada.
Dominic Williams is the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published articles in Contemporary Women's Writing, RACAR and Holocaust Studies. He is co-editor (with Fabio A. Durão) of Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008).
Together they have co-authored Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016) and co-edited Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony (Palgrave, 2013) and Testimonies of Resistance (2019).
Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada. Dominic Williams is the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published articles in Contemporary Women’s Writing, RACAR and Holocaust Studies. He is co-editor (with Fabio A. Durão) of Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008). Together they have co-authored Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016) and co-edited Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony (Palgrave, 2013) and Testimonies of Resistance (2019).
Acknowledgements 6
Contents 8
Chapter 1 Introduction: Figuring the Sonderkommando in History 9
Gender in the Archive 14
The Uses of Testimony 21
Chapter 2 Acts of Deposition: Gender and Testimony in the Scrolls of Auschwitz 33
The Deaths of Schillinger 33
The Scrolls of Auschwitz 39
Sex and Gender in Auschwitz-Birkenau 43
The Play of Gazes 50
Sadism 59
Chapter 3 Tragic Pictures: The Sonderkommando and Their Photographs 79
Introduction: On Attribution 79
Limits of Seeing 81
Wanting Immediacy 84
Texts and Images 87
Postmemory Avant La Lettre 92
Words for Pictures 97
Chapter 4 The Trials of Witnessing: Legal Testimony and the Sonderkommando 109
An Interested Audience 109
The Belsen Trial at Lüneburg (1945) 114
Poland—Trials of Höss and Auschwitz Staff 119
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965) 126
Conclusion 128
Chapter 5 Figure Studies from the Grey Zone: David Olère 137
In Line with the Facts 137
The Reception of the Artist 142
Ilse Koch at Auschwitz 145
Sexual Violence 151
Marked Men 154
A Beautiful Death 158
Out of Line 162
Collage 163
Chapter 6 Matters of Video Testimony 178
Listening and Resistance 178
Age and Gender: Dario Gabbai and Daniel Bennahmias 190
Memory in the Frame: Technique and Technology 198
Ethics and Reception: Segmentation, Transcription and Interpretation 204
Chapter 7 The Voice of Bronze: Filip Müller and Shoah 225
Telling for the Last Time 225
Shaping the Voice 228
Embodiment 234
Müller’s Unique Position 236
Going Back to the Archive 239
Conclusion 243
Bibliography 254
Index 273
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.2.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Holocaust and its Contexts | The Holocaust and its Contexts |
| Zusatzinfo | VII, 278 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | Acts of Deposition • collaborators • concentration camps • David Olère • Filip Müller • Holocaust • Jewish Studies • Scrolls of Auschwitz • Shoah • The Trials of Witnessing |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-11491-0 / 3030114910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-11491-6 / 9783030114916 |
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