Sonderkommando

[Hoffman Grink]

I have just sat and watched this documentary. I have not seen it before nor was I aware it had been made. I was moved. It brought home something I had often contemplated and, having visited KZL, tried to visualise.
Henryk Mandelbaum was the last of the SonderKommando. If you want to understand better the regime you choose to portray - watch this documentary. Listen to and watch a man who, as a young prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, was forced to undertake inhuman tasks simply to survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Mandelbaum
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php? ... 5&Itemid=8

[barryG]

I watched that, and like you had never heard of it. A very moving story, a good man to tell it after all that time in all its graphic detail. Ive visited camps, but nothing really explains things like that film did.

[Gilhusen]

I saw that too.

I find it sad that they where hunted in the 1950 and 1940s by the russians and so on because they where thought to be with the nazis, how any one could live through that is amazing

[JDR]

watched it myself thought it weas interesting.