Sonderkommando Revolt – Auschwitz – Birkenau 7 October 1944
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Sonderkommando burning corpses in an open air pit at Birkenau
The Sonderkommando or ("Special Command Units') were Jewish prisoners who
were forced to work in the death camps at the grisly task of burning of the
corpses of those already murdered by the Nazi's.
For periods lasting from two to four month's these units worked under
hellish conditions until they themselves were liquidated by the Germans, and
the first task of their replacements was to dispose of the bodies of the
previous group. Since a Sonderkommando usually comprised men from incoming
transports, their second task often consisted of disposing of the bodies of
their own families.
At Birkenau their duties included guiding the new arrivals into the gas
chambers, removing the bodies afterwards, shavin... (more)
Dr Elchanan Elkes chairman of the Kovno Judenrat
Letters to London
1943 - the chairman writes to his children about life in the Kovno ghetto
Dr Elchanan Elkes of the Kovno Judenrat
My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of
Vilijampole, Kovno Ghetto, where we have been for over two years. We have now
heard that in a few days our fate is to be sealed. The Ghetto is to be
crushed and torn asunder.
Whether we are all to perish, or whether a few of us are to survive, is in
God’s hands, we fear that only those capable of slave l... (more)
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Belzec
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