audiobook The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Rethinking the Western Tradition) by Abraham Lincoln in History

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The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself; they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book; translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew; consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before. Over a period of years; Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem;" but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people; 90 percent of them Jews; who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.