Description:
The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando tells the extraordinary and harrowing story of a young Greek Jewish survivor forced into the Nazi Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Working closely with Daniel Bennahmias, Rebecca Fromer reconstructs a rare eyewitness account of suffering, resilience, resistance, and survival within one of history's most brutal systems of extermination. Both deeply personal and historically significant, this memoir illuminates the human consequences of the Holocaust while preserving the testimony of one of the few surviving members of the Sonderkommando. This book will appeal to historians, Holocaust scholars, students of Jewish studies, educators, genealogists, and readers interested in World War II history, survivor memoirs, and human resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity.
Review Quotes:
"Beautifully written . . . a welcome addition to the study of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. What makes this book especially important is that it is the eyewitness story of Daniel Bennahmias, who was a member of the Sonderkommando--people relegated to the most horrible duty of any concentration camp inmates, that of removing freshly gassed bodies from the gas chambers at Auschwitz, where four gas chambers often exterminated 10,000 people per day."--International Society for Yad Vashem