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Zalmen Gradowski – Écrits I et II - Témoignage d’un Sonderkommando d’Auschwitz - Éditions Kimé, Paris (en collaboration avec la Fondation Auschwitz – Mémoire d'Auschwitz ASBL - Bruxelles), 2013, 1ª edição em Francês, 240 páginas.

Paperback

Em língua Francesa

Livro em muito bom estado, como novo.

Miolo perfeito, páginas perfeitas. Sem assinatura de posse, notas ou sublinhados.

Com uma meia-dúzia de ilustrações (manuscrito original, foto do autor, etc)

Trata-se das memórias escritas clandestinamente pelo autor em Auschwitz-Birkenau entre 1942 e 44, onde escapou à morte durante 2 anos porque teve a dúbia sorte de ter sido escolhido para ser o que os alemães chamavam de sonderkommando (trabalhador especial), ou seja, limpar as câmaras de gás e os fornos de Auschwitz-Birkenau dos cadáveres.

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Zalman Gradowski or Chaim Zalman Gradowski (1910 – 7 October 1944) originally from Suwałki, was a Polish Jewish prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

On November 2, 1942, he was deported, as were all Jews then living in Lunna, as well as neighboring towns, to the Kielbasin (Kolbasino) transit camp (Transitlager or Sammellager).

On December 5, 1942, he and all his Jewish townsfolk (numbering approximately 1,500) were forcibly marched from the Kielbasin transit camp to Lososno, Poland, where they boarded a train bound for, as he later discovered, Auschwitz.

The train arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the morning of December 8, 1942.

After "selection" at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his family members as well as all women and children, and most of the men who were on the transport, were immediately sent to the gas chamber and murdered.

Shortly afterward, Gradowski and several others from the transport who survived the “selection” were sent to work in crematoria as part of the Sonderkommando slave labour unit.

In order to bear witness for future generations, Gradowski wrote a secret diary, in Yiddish, describing his life and the camp.

He buried his notebook in the camp as a time capsule.

In it, Gradowski provided a detailed description of the extermination process in Birkenau.

He was one of the key figures in the Sonderkommando underground at Auschwitz, where he was murdered during the revolt of 7 October 1944.

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Do site da Fondation Auschwitz – Mémoire d'Auschwitz ASBL - Bruxelles

Ces Écrits ont été clandestinement rédigés par un des chefs de la résistance qui a mené la révolte du quartier des chambres à gaz à Auschwitz-Birkenau le 7 octobre 1944.

Dans le premier, Zalmen Gradowski témoigne de sa déportation avec les siens, puis de leur sélection en tant que Juifs dès leur arrivée. Sa famille est directement envoyée à la mort, lui est incorporé de force dans les équipes chargées de faire fonctionner la machine génocidaire nazie.

Dans son second manuscrit, il fait le récit des relations qu’entretenaient les Sonderkommandos entre eux et de l’assassinat des Juifs tchèques de Theresienstadt. Se sachant condamné, il enterre ses manuscrits près des crématoires.

Pour la première fois, les voilà réunis dans une nouvelle traduction avec un appareil critique entièrement réactualisé.