Seventy years after: the contribution of the Sonderkommando research to the understanding and interpretation of the "Final Solution" in Auschwitz-Birkenau

For many years after the Holocaust, members of the Sonderkommando were condemned. It was also assumed that all the members of the Sonderkommando had been killed to ensure there were no witnesses. The written testimony that had been buried and later recovered as well as oral testimony of the few Sonderkommando survivors enable us to better understand the perspective of the victim.