Book Chapter
Igor Bartosik, Asia Beattie and Anja Nowak, “The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz and the Revolt of October 7, 1944.” Auschwitz: History, Place and People. An Academic Guide to the Camp Complex. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2021, p. 61-78.
Educational Resources
- The Gray Zone by Carlos Halaburda
- Sonderkommando Map by Marcie Schlick
Extended Footnotes
- Chapter 4 by Igor Bartosik, Asia Beattie and Anja Nowak
Discussion Prompts
- How should we treat kapos within the “Perpetrator, Victim, and Bystander” framework?
- Define and discuss the “gray zone” that existed in concentration camps.
Bibliography
Bartosik, Igor. The Sonderkommando Revolt October 7, 1944. Oswiecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2019.
Brewster, Sara. “The Feuerwehrkommando of Auschwitz Birkenau.” In The More I Know, The Less I Understand., 65–77. Oswiecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2017.
Graif, Gidʻon. We Wept without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz. New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press, 2005.
Jarosz, Barbara. “Organizations of the Camp Resistance Movement and Their Activities.” In Auschwitz: Nazi Death Camp, edited by Teresa Swiebocki and Franciszek Piper, 215–34. Oswiecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1996.
Piper, Franciszek. “The Mass Extermination of Jews in the Gas Chambers.” In Auschwitz: Nazi Death Camp, edited by Teresa Swiebocki, 165–73. Oswiecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1996.
