Authors:
- Nicholas Chare, Département d’histoire de l’art, de cinéma et des médias audiovisuels (Department of History of Art and Film Studies), Université de Montréal (University of Montreal) - Wikipedia

- Dominic Williams, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northumbria University - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID, SciProfiles

Contents:

	Acknowledgements (p. v)
	1 Figuring the Sonderkommando in History (p. 1)
		Gender in the Archive (p. 6)
		The Uses of Testimony (p. 13)
		Notes (p. 19)
	2 Acts of Deposition: Gender and Testimony in the Scrolls of Auschwitz (p. 25)
		The Deaths of Schillinger (p. 25)
		The Scrolls of Auschwitz (p. 31)
		Sex and Gender in Auschwitz-Birkenau (p. 35)
		The Play of Gazes (p. 42)
		Sadism (p. 51)
		Notes (p. 58)
	3 Tragic Pictures: The Sonderkommando and Their Photographs (p. 71)
		Introduction: On Attribution (p. 71)
		Limits of Seeing (p. 73)
		Wanting Immediacy (p. 76)
		Texts and Images (p. 79)
		Postmemory Avant La Lettre (p. 84)
		Words for Pictures (p. 89)
		Notes (p. 92)
	4 The Trials of Witnessing: Legal Testimony and the Sonderkommando (p. 101)
		An Interested Audience (p. 101)
		The Belsen Trial at Lüneburg (1945) (p. 106)
		Poland—Trials of Höss and Auschwitz Staff (p. 111)
		The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965) (p. 118)
		Conclusion (p. 120)
		Notes (p. 121)
	5 Figure Studies from the Grey Zone: David Olère (p. 129)
		In Line with the Facts (p. 129)
		The Reception of the Artist (p. 134)
		Ilse Koch at Auschwitz (p. 137)
		Sexual Violence (p. 143)
		Marked Men (p. 146)
		A Beautiful Death (p. 150)
		Out of Line (p. 154)
		Collage (p. 155)
		Notes (p. 159)
	6 Matters of Video Testimony (p. 171)
		Listening and Resistance (p. 171)
		Age and Gender: Dario Gabbai and Daniel Bennahmias (p. 183)
		Memory in the Frame: Technique and Technology (p. 191)
		Ethics and Reception: Segmentation, Transcription and Interpretation (p. 197)
		Notes (p. 205)
	7 The Voice of Bronze: Filip Müller and Shoah (p. 219)
		Telling for the Last Time (p. 219)
		Shaping the Voice (p. 222)
		Embodiment (p. 228)
		Müller’s Unique Position (p. 230)
		Going Back to the Archive (p. 233)
		Conclusion (p. 237)
		Notes (p. 240)
	Bibliography (p. 249)
	Index (p. 269)

Description: »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.« (Source: Springer Link)

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