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Witness And Complicity: The Scrolls Of Auschwitz And The Sonderkommando, Leah Christine Ingle
Witness And Complicity: The Scrolls Of Auschwitz And The Sonderkommando, Leah Christine Ingle
Masters Theses
The Scrolls of Auschwitz provide a voice not only for the men who had to work in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but also for those who worked in other camps and locations – almost none of whom survived. Because there were more survivors and more information on the Sonderkommando of Birkenau, these men and their testimony have become the foundation on which the scholarship on the Sonderkommando has been built; therefore, as the only writings by Sonderkommando men known to have survived their time in the camps, the Scrolls lie at the center of this topic. Gideon Greif notes that these writings “allow …
A Question Of G-D: Jewish Theology And Memoirs Of The Holocaust, Rebecca Mcclellan
A Question Of G-D: Jewish Theology And Memoirs Of The Holocaust, Rebecca Mcclellan
Honors College Theses
The Holocaust, the systematic murder of the European Jews by the Germans, had massive impacts on the religious beliefs of those Jews who survived it. Nazi authorities and their accomplices stripped Jews away from their homes, their families, and everything they knew. Forced to work under inhumane conditions, many came to question the God they had followed and the religion they had practiced. This thesis investigates the memoirs of five Jewish survivors to analyze the impact the Holocaust had on their faith.