Matters of Testimony

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<p> In 1944, members of the<em>Sonderkommando</em>the special squads, composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination processburied on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these Scrolls of Auschwitz, which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camps liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.</p>

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<p><strong>Nicholas Chare</strong> is Associate Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of<em>Auschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation</em> and<em>After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint</em>, and the co-editor, with Dominic Williams, of<em>Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony</em>.</p>

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