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2013, No. 1 (4), On Representation

Marta Zawodna
The Testimony of the Death of Another in Załmen Gradowski’s Notes

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Keywords: notes written by members of Sonderkommandos, The Holocaust, representation

Abstract:
This article attempts to interpret notes written by Zalman Gradowski, a member of Sonderkommandos, about the gassing of Jews from the Czech family camp in Auschwitz. The first part of the text presents a brief biography of Gradowski, who was murdered in the camp, as well as the story of how his notes were found. The second part of the text shows narrative strategies (narrator type, metaphors) by which he bears witness to death of Others in the gas chambers.

About Author:
ZAWODNA MARTA - assistant, Institute of Sociology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. E-mail: martazawodna[at]wp.pl
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