Clearing out the Gas Chambers
10th December 1942: Some Jewish slave labourers survive because they are needed for the Sonderkommandos that dispose of the bodies in Auschwitz
The majority of Poland's Jews had been murdered by the end of 1942.
At the main "Action Reinhardt" extermination camps the small groups of Jews selected to work on the disposal of the bodies (the 'Sonderkommando') were themsel…
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