But the history of Auschwitz in 1944 is not just ... increased the number of Jewish prisoners in the Sonderkommando they made work in the crematoria in order to deal with the massive numbers ...

glasses and brushes — that in the camp jargon was called “Canada,” and visited the building of the first gas chamber and crematorium at Auschwitz I. In the second part of the visit ...

WARSAW — On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration ... he was the last surviving member of the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners forced ...