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| Author | Gideon Greif |
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| Original title | Bakhinu beli dema'ot |
| Subject | Holocaust |
Publication date | 1999 |
Published in English | 2005 |
| 940.531853858 | |
| LC Class | D805.5.A96 |
We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book byGideon Greif. First published in Hebrew in 1999,[1] the work was translated into English in 2005.[2] Greif's book based on a series of interviews with surviving members ofSonderkommando - Jewish prisoners who survived by working in the German death camps. The writer, Gideon Greif, is a researcher atYad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel, the principal institution in the world studying the history of theHolocaust. He had also served as a visiting professor at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, theUniversity of Miami.
TheSonderkommando, who were work units ofNazideath camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process atAuschwitz and Birkenau camps, consisted mainly of Jewish prisoners. The book is based on interviews with survivors of units of theSonderkommando. A note by the publishers states: "The book provides direct testimony about the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Problem,' but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau."[3]
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