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'Son Of Saul' Brings Viewers To The Heart Of The Nazi Death Machine At Auschwitz (you can listen to interview or read the transcript)
"Director László Nemes and star Géza Röhrig discuss Son of Saul, a film set in a Nazi death camp. The movie won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival...
ROHRIG:..So there is this man in Westchester, David, whose father was in Auschwitz, but that's all he knew, that his father was in Auschwitz. His father did not like to talk about it. And in his late 80s, he was about to pass and he gave his will in an envelope to his son, David. And after the funeral, in the presence of, you know, the family's lawyer, they opened the envelope. And they learned that his father's will is to be cremated. And not only that, but he wants his ashes to be carried back to Auschwitz and placed in the oven. And that was obviously a shock. David did not tell that his father was a Sonderkommando member.
GROSS: He mentioned that in the will - that he'd been a Sonderkommando.
ROHRIG: He mentioned that in the will, correct. And so basically, by asking David to carry the ashes back to Auschwitz, I think he's making a couple of points. One is that this is the people to whom I belong to, even more than to my family. That's the community I belong to. So that what was eating him, and that's what it must have been like to be a Sonderkommando member...."
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/46004.../eopW+(People+&+Places)&utm_source=feedburner
We Wept Without Tears
"We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book by Gid'on Graif..
...book based on a series of interviews with surviving Sonderkommandos - Jewish prisoners who survived by working staff jobs at the Geman death camps...
The Sonderkommando, that is, the work units of Nazi death camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process during The Holocaust, of Auschwitz and Birkenau..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wept_Without_Tears
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THE HOLOCAUSTS FIRST HISTORIAN
"They are telling their stories for the first time. Often, you have to strain to hear whats being said on the 70-year-old tapes the wire recording crackling perilously as if it could cut out at any time. Words swim in and out like a badly tuned radio, voices echo and screech. But the urgency of the words and the silences and sobs that come in between are all too clear...
It took more than a year of determined fundraising before Boder headed to Europe as an archivist and scholar to record firsthand accounts. It hadnt been easy, because in 1946 not many wanted to hear from survivors. It was too recent of a memory, too recent of a hurt, explains Ralph Pugh, an archivist with the Illinois Institute of Technologys Voices of the Holocaust project, which houses digitized versions of Boders interviews...
Over the course of two months, he interviewed 130 people: young and old, male and female, of many nationalities, but all DPs displaced persons who had been held in internment and extermination camps. The interviews describe, in agonizing detail, the experiences we associate today with the Holocaust, including death marches, mass executions, gas chambers, families separated and extinguished..."
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-holocausts-first-historian/66244
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Voices of the Holocaust
http://voices.iit.edu/search_results?filter_by=name
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"Director László Nemes and star Géza Röhrig discuss Son of Saul, a film set in a Nazi death camp. The movie won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival...
ROHRIG:..So there is this man in Westchester, David, whose father was in Auschwitz, but that's all he knew, that his father was in Auschwitz. His father did not like to talk about it. And in his late 80s, he was about to pass and he gave his will in an envelope to his son, David. And after the funeral, in the presence of, you know, the family's lawyer, they opened the envelope. And they learned that his father's will is to be cremated. And not only that, but he wants his ashes to be carried back to Auschwitz and placed in the oven. And that was obviously a shock. David did not tell that his father was a Sonderkommando member.
GROSS: He mentioned that in the will - that he'd been a Sonderkommando.
ROHRIG: He mentioned that in the will, correct. And so basically, by asking David to carry the ashes back to Auschwitz, I think he's making a couple of points. One is that this is the people to whom I belong to, even more than to my family. That's the community I belong to. So that what was eating him, and that's what it must have been like to be a Sonderkommando member...."
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/46004.../eopW+(People+&+Places)&utm_source=feedburner
We Wept Without Tears
"We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, is a book by Gid'on Graif..
...book based on a series of interviews with surviving Sonderkommandos - Jewish prisoners who survived by working staff jobs at the Geman death camps...
The Sonderkommando, that is, the work units of Nazi death camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process during The Holocaust, of Auschwitz and Birkenau..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wept_Without_Tears
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THE HOLOCAUSTS FIRST HISTORIAN
"They are telling their stories for the first time. Often, you have to strain to hear whats being said on the 70-year-old tapes the wire recording crackling perilously as if it could cut out at any time. Words swim in and out like a badly tuned radio, voices echo and screech. But the urgency of the words and the silences and sobs that come in between are all too clear...
It took more than a year of determined fundraising before Boder headed to Europe as an archivist and scholar to record firsthand accounts. It hadnt been easy, because in 1946 not many wanted to hear from survivors. It was too recent of a memory, too recent of a hurt, explains Ralph Pugh, an archivist with the Illinois Institute of Technologys Voices of the Holocaust project, which houses digitized versions of Boders interviews...
Over the course of two months, he interviewed 130 people: young and old, male and female, of many nationalities, but all DPs displaced persons who had been held in internment and extermination camps. The interviews describe, in agonizing detail, the experiences we associate today with the Holocaust, including death marches, mass executions, gas chambers, families separated and extinguished..."
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-holocausts-first-historian/66244
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Voices of the Holocaust
http://voices.iit.edu/search_results?filter_by=name
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