The Sonderkommando, which were composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had first hand knowledge of the extermination process. In 1944, in the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau, they buried a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This book examines these 'Scrolls of Auschwitz", which were gradaully recovered after the camp's liberation It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content.