Sonderkommando

after being separated from his daughter and wife—though he feared his days would soon be counted—he volunteered to work as a pathologist under Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Working under the supervision of a Nazi superior meant one became Sonderkommando. As a Sonderkommando, one had the privilege to wear civilian clothes and receive better meals. Hence, working for Dr. Mengele, Dr. Nyiszli had certain privileges other Jewish prisoners did not obtain. The Nazi government to provide a way to enhance the Aryan

at Auschwitz, as he got off the train he told his mother to stay close, this would be the last time he would ever see her. His mother and two younger sisters would both die before the end of the war in 1945. Shlomo was taken and placed into the Sonderkommando. A unit of death camp prisoners forced to aid in the gassing of over a million prisoners from 1941-1945. If the

Hidden under conspiracy, doubt, and denial, the truth of what really happened during the Holocaust has been revealed through an immense amount of investigation and research. Nazis were essentially ordered to exterminate Jewish existence from the face of the earth, and created an aim to finish off the Jews in Europe by either gassing, shooting, or even starving them to death. There have been claims from deniers that these stories were only conspiracy theories made by the Jews to justify their atrocious

prisoners managed to escape. On October 14, prisoners killed 11 guards and set the whole camp on fire. Around 300 prisoners escaped, but lots were killed during the manhunt. Only 50 Jews survived at the end of the war. At Auschwitz prisoners of the Sonderkommando the special squad whose job it was to burn the bodies of the murdered victims, learned that there were plans to kill them. On October 7, 1944 a group of them rose up, killing 3 guards and blowing up the crematorium. Hundreds of prisoners escaped

cruel medical experiments have been acknowledged. Targets of the experiments included Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, and Catholic priests (Medical Experiments ). At many of the killing centers, the Nazis created the Sonderkommando. These were groups of Jewish male prisoners chosen for their youth and good health. Their work was to get rid of corpses from the gas chambers or crematoria. Some did the job to setback their own deaths; some thought they could save their friends

with a long shot of the background greenery which transitions into a close shot of Saul. Saul is calm like the greenery and his expression conveys the comfort of the background, contrasting the chaos ensuing around him. Another member of the Sonderkommando shuffles into position, joining the shot, and says, “Lets go”. They begin to usher groups of people in another direction. It is clear now that they are taking people off the trains and moving them to the camps. There are loud sounds in the

killing over 6 million. While this was going on, there were resistance efforts. This included resistance from the Jews, and Germans. Three impactful examples of resistance efforts include the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,  the White Rose Society, and the Sonderkommando Revolt. All of these groups worked to liberate Jews and opposed the Nazis.     The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was organized by Jews in an underground group called the ZOB. The Jews were being held in the ghetto, and the Nazis began deportations to

There were the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, male laborers who disposed of the dead bodies in the crematories. Subject to instant execution if caught, Estusia, Anna, and a small number of other women played key roles in smuggling gunpowder for explosives from the Union Munitions factory to the men of the Sonderkommando. The Sonderkommando made 'grenades' out of shoe polish cans that they filled with gunpowder that the women smuggled out of the plant. The Sonderkommando Uprising occurred on

Holocaust Writing Assignment As a chosen sonderkommando, I was used, lied to, and forced to watch my Jewish brothers and sisters suffer from the persecution and execution that was imposed by the Nazi regime. I was stationed in Birkenau, the most fatal of the concentration camps. Though I was a Jew at the time, I had another trait that made me despised not only by the stoic guards of the camp but by some fellow prisoners as well. I was a black man. Being in a position where I had two “despicable”

Auschwitz Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele nicknamed, “ The Angel of Death” was