{"product_id":"inside-the-gas-chambers-eight-months-in-the-sonderkommando-of-auschwitz-9780745643830","title":"Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a unique  eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki  Greece. At first  the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded  the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival  and he learned  at first with disbelief  that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread  he agreed to become a Sonderkommando  without realising what this entailed. He soon found himself a member of the special unit responsible for removing the corpses from the gas chambers and burning their bodies. Dispassionately  he details the grim round of daily tasks  evokes the terror inspired by the man in charge of the crematoria  Angel of Death Otto Moll  and recounts the attempts made by some of the prisoners to escape  including the revolt of October 1944. It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged to tell their tale - but  as a member of a Sonderkommando  Shlomo Venezia was given this horrific privilege. He knew that  having witnessed the unspeakable  he in turn would probably be eliminated by the SS in case he ever told his tale. He survived: this is his story.  Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Also available as an audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651942637621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0745643833","price":40.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780745643830.jpg?v=1781846579","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inside-the-gas-chambers-eight-months-in-the-sonderkommando-of-auschwitz-9780745643830","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}