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03746aam a2200457 i 4500 001 20537A4EE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240314010222 008 220128s2022 ilua b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022003413 020 $a 022663678X 020 $a 9780226636788 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h yid 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-pl--- 050 00 $a DS134.72.G72 $b A3 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20220218 100 1 $a Gradowski, Zalmen, $d 1910-1944, $e author. 240 10 $a In Harz fub Gehenem. $l English $s (Monet) 245 14 $a The last consolation vanished : $b the testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz / $c Zalmen Gradowski ; edited and with a foreword and afterword by Arnold I. Davidson & Philippe Mesnard ; translated by Rubye Monet. 246 30 $a Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xxxiii, 198 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198). 520 $a "The Last Consolation Vanished is a unique first-person Holocaust account. It is by Zalmen Gradowski, who was one of the Sonderkommandos (special squads) at Auschwitz, a Jew tasked with ushering prisoners into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, and destroying all evidence of their murders. The Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS men; when they discovered how dreadful the work they were expected to do was, a number of them committed suicide or acted with the aim of being killed by the SS. In spite of their situation, some Sonderkommandos never gave up and attempted to resist in two very interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski resisted both ways, and while the rebellion he helped to lead on October 7, 1944, was completely crushed, and Gradowski was murdered in the process, his testimony lives on. Hidden in a metal bottle in the ashes near Crematorium III, Gradowski's two lyrical accounts describe the brutality of the Nazi regime, the process of the assassination of Czech Jews, and the relationship among the men forced to assist in the horrors. But his notebooks are not the detached blow-by-blow series of declarative statements we have come to expect in narratives of this kind. In the midst of daily unimaginable horrors, Gradowski aimed to write beautifully, lyrically, movingly, to create true literature where and when one would least expect to find it. Gradowski wrote in Yiddish, and until now, his full writings have only appeared in French translation. This most exceptional text, accompanied by a preface and postface by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, will be of enormous value, both in Holocaust scholarship and in continuing the remembrance of the Shoah, for many years to come"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Gradowski, Zalmen, $d 1910-1944. 610 20 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 610 20 $a Birkenau (Concentration camp) 650 0 $a Sonderkommandos $z OÅwiÄcim $z OÅwiÄcim $v Biography. 650 0 $a Nazi concentration camp inmates $z OÅwiÄcim $z OÅwiÄcim $v Biography. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $v Personal narratives. 650 0 $a Jews, Polish $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Personal narratives. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Davidson, Arnold I. $q (Arnold Ira), $d 1955- $e writer of afterword. $e writer of afterword. 700 1 $a Mesnard, Philippe, $d 1956- $e writer of preface. $e writer of preface. 700 1 $a Monet, Rubye, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716040901.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20537A4EE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search