sonderkommando Archives – Jewish Journal

The Last Sonderkommando, Jewish Prisoners Forced To Operate Gas Chambers, Has Died

Michael Berenbaum April 14, 2020

No one saw the horrors of the Holocaust quite like Dario Gabbai, who died at 97.

What’s behind the dark charisma of ‘Son of Saul’ star Geza Rohrig?

Jewish Journal February 18, 2016

When the Hungarian-Jewish poet Geza Rohrig agreed to play the lead role in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust drama “Son of Saul,” he knew he was taking on a daunting challenge.

‘Son of Saul’: For Claims Conference, Oscar nominee was a big gamble

Jewish Journal February 2, 2016

Set amid a 1944 prisoner uprising at Auschwitz, “Son of Saul” stood out as a long shot when its producers first applied for funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Shlomo Venezia, who survived being an Auschwitz Sonderkommando, dies

Jewish Journal October 2, 2012

Shlomo Venezia, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in an Auschwitz Sonderkommando unit and spent years bearing personal testimony to the Shoah, has died.

Theater: The answer isn’t black and white

Robert David Jaffee October 26, 2006

Initial reservations about staging a play about Auschwitz\’s Sonderkommando, Jews who cleaned the gas chambers and crematoria in exchange for a few extra months of life.