Rethinking the existential condition of the 'Sonderkommando'
TitleRethinking the existential condition of the 'Sonderkommando'
Author
Call number940.5318/0051
Object number10211l
Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Year of publication
2018
Physical descriptionpp 288-310
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780810137660
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies Vol XIII: new approaches to an integrated history of the Holocaust: social history, representation, theory.' pp 288-310
Description
Discusses the philosophical implications of whether both traditional and recent models of moral evaluation can illuminate the choices of the Jewish prisoner-functionaries who worked in the 'Sonderkommando' unit in the Nazi camps.