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We Wept Without Tears
Author:Gideon Greif
Title Orig:Bakhinu beli dema'ot
Orig Lang Code:he
Subject:Holocaust
Pub Date:1999
English Pub Date:2005
Dewey:940.531853858
Congress:D805.5.A96

We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book by Gideon Greif. First published in Hebrew in 1999,[1] the work was translated into English in 2005.[2] Greif's book based on a series of interviews with surviving Sonderkommandos - Jewish prisoners who survived by working in the German death camps. The writer, Gideon Greif, is a researcher at Yad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel, the principal institution in the world studying the history of the Holocaust. He had also served as a visiting professor at The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, the University of Miami.

The Sonderkommando, who were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process at Auschwitz and Birkenau camps, consisted mainly of Jewish prisoners. The book is based on interviews with survivors of units of the Sonderkommandos. A note by the publishers states: "The book provides direct testimony about the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Problem,' but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau."[3]

Critical reception

References

  1. Book: Greif, Gideon . Bakhinu beli dema'ot-- / . 1999 . Hebrew . 965-448-450-1 . 420.
  2. Book: Greif, Gideon . We Wept Without Tears . 2005 . . 0-300-10651-3 . 381.
  3. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300106513 We Wept Without Tears
  4. News: Trevor . Royle . They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film . . 2 . 2002-10-27.