We Wept Without Tears by Gideon Greif - 9780300211979

Yale University Press

We Wept Without TearsTestimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz\nAuthor(s): Gideon Greif\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300211979, 978-0300211979\nSynopsis\nThe Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be members of staff of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few survivingmen who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before.\n Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral ani