Testimonies
In the collection at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Israel, there are notes from members of Sonderkommandos. The following note was found buried in the Auschwitz crematoria and was written by Zalman Gradowski, a member of the Sonderkommandos who was killed in 7 October 1944 revolt:
"Dear finder of these notes, I have one request of you, which is, in fact, the practical objective for my writing ... that my days of Hell, that my hopeless tomorrow will find a purpose in the future. I am transmitting only a part of what happened in the Birkenau-Auschwitz Hell. You will realize what reality looked like ... From all this you will have a picture of how our people perished."
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