David Sierakowiak’s Lodz Ghetto Diary
In the latest of a series looking at eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, CARR Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb presents David Sierakowiak’s account of the Lodz Ghetto, describing the horrific…
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Remembering Auschwitz 75 through Sonderkommando Photography
Remembering the past is always complex. Remembering inevitably means we recall only selected sections of the past, and so in making any such selection we forget as much as we…
75th commemoration of the Sonderkommando Revolt at Auschwitz–Birkenau
During the Second World War, the Sonderkommando [Special Working Group] was forced by Auschwitz-Birkenau’s SS commandantur to carry out the ghastly work at the gas chambers. This included leading the…