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Chare, Nicholas; Williams, Dominic - Matters of Testimony - 9781782389989 - V9781782389989
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Matters of Testimony

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Description for Matters of Testimony Hardcover. In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony. Num Pages: 276 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp’s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782389989
SKU
V9781782389989
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Ref
99-15

About Chare, Nicholas; Williams, Dominic
Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation and After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint, and the co-editor, with Dominic Williams, of Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony.

Reviews for Matters of Testimony
“Chare and Williams have applied a multidisciplinary approach using methods drawn from history, literature, art, psychology, photography, and the study of material culture to analyze these documents, which are often referred to as the Scrolls of Auschwitz, an allusion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the damaged documents are often very difficult to read and interpret. ... Read more

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