Episode 390 - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt

1h 33m
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A group of people, forced into one of the worst jobs in human history, decide to launch a suicidal revolt to destroy the tools of the Holocaust.

Sources:

Lawerence Langer. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit

Primo Levi. The Drowned and the Saved.

Nathan Cohen. Diaries of the Sonderkommando - Confronting Fate and Reality.

Tzipora Hager Halivni. Preparation for Revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Heroes and Martyrs.

Filip Muller. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.

Henryk Tauber. Deposition made on May 24, 1945. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau

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Runtime: 1h 33m

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