Svitki iz pepla
Subtitle: zhertvy i palachi Osvent︠s︡ima
By: Pavel Poli︠a︡n
Published: 2015
Language: rus
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9785170890606
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Sonderkommandos; Sources; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); History
Description: Pavel Polian is a social geographer, historian, poet and writer. "Scrolls from the ashes: victims and executioners of Auschwitz" is a book having two-part composition - Auschwitz-Birkenau and its Chronicles. The members of the "Sonderkommando", which is devoted to this book, are supporting work teams, made up almost exclusively of Jews, whom the Nazis forced to assist them in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands - both Jews and non-Jews. About a hundred people of two thousand survived, and a few dozen of them have written about their experiences (or gave a detailed interview). But the dead left behind a written testimony, and some of them were found after the war in the ground near the crematoria of Auschwitz. These scrolls - undoubtedly, the central document of the Holocaust, recently completely unknown in Russia - for the first time gathered in this book.
Notes: "Nominant premii 'Prosvetitelʹ'"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-606).

Table of contents in English; texts translated from Yiddish, French, German and English.