The Auschwitz Scrolls: Buried Testimony and the Fight Against Nazi Erasure

The Auschwitz Scrolls are clandestine writings buried by Jewish prisoners forced to work in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This accessible historical guide explains the camp system and the prisoners’ coercive circumstances, traces the manuscripts’ concealment and recovery, and introduces the writers and the uncertainties of fragmentary evidence. It also shows how historians read testimo...