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 powerless
