Many of those who were only wounded suffocated, buried alive": analyzing the experiences of Jews who survived mass executions

The Holocaust is associated primarily with death camps, but mass executions alongside crematoria were an equal way to exterminate Jews during World War II. This article presents the perspective of Jews who survived the shootings. What can we learn by analyzing this experience? This article describes received understandings of how people died during the Holocaust and challenges the assumption that those who survived were all irreversibly changed