Through a simple narrative, without any emphasis or pathos, but sparing no detail of unimaginable harshness (see other comments that realize), Shlomo Venezia offers one of the few existing accounts of the sonderkommandos, these "teams special "consisting of deportees in the death camps, the lowest helped to undress before ending up in the gas chambers, cut the hair of the dead, extracted gold teeth, enfournaient corpses in the crematoria, were recovering ashes ..., basically ensured a macabre stewardship in one of the most inhumane operations that humans have caused. Venezia is a Jew from Salonika, deported 21 years at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Probably because a little harder than most others, probably also largely luckily he escaped immediate execution to find themselves in these teams accompanying death. He tells us the cruelty, hunger, limited solidarity siblings, this impression of having become a beast or a machine, and of course this overwhelming sense of guilt to be released especially for attending the executioners . From this descent into horror, the result is a very impressive book that should be made mandatory reading for all those c ..., young and old, or islamos nazis, who say that all this did not exist. ..
