Inside the Gas Chambers. A True Story of a Crematorium Worker at Auschwitz

The events described in the book are valuable from a historical perspective. The author is one of the few surviving prisoners who was a participant in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Members of the Sonderkommando accompanied prisoners to the gas chambers, which were equipped like showers. They helped undress, cut the long hair of women, took belongings, and after death extracted gold teeth. But their main task was to transport the bodies of the victims from the gas chambers to the ovens. Since the members of the Sonderkommando were unwilling accomplices of the executioners, to hide the crimes against humanity, almost all of them were killed. This book is a true story about a place where inhuman cruelty, despair, hunger, suffering, and death were part of daily reality, and a reminder of the horrific tragedy that forever altered the fates of countless men, women, and children. The foreword to the book was written by Simone Weil, a former Auschwitz prisoner and president of the Fund for the Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.