eperszajsrozsa: Des voix sous la cendre Hangok a hamú alatt Voices under the ash קולות אונטער

eperszajsrozsa:

Des voix sous la cendre
Hangok a hamú alatt
Voices under the ash
קולות אונטער די אַש

(Zalmen Gradowski, Leib Langfus és Zalmen Lewental titkos leirásai)

[ARTE dokumentació: Sonderkommando Auschwitz-Birkenaufrançais/deutsch]

After the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp by the Red Army in January 1945, it became known that the Nazis had forced Jewish concentration camp inmates to participate in the killing of fellow inmates. Most members of the so-called Sonderkommandos were murdered on abandonment of the concentration camp to eliminate witnesses of the horror.

Only a few of them succeeded in writing down part of the incredible facts and secretly passing on their message to posterity beyond their own annihilation …