Eyewitness Auschwitz

During the attempted extermination of the entire Jewish population, many Jewish prisoners were enjoin to assist in the killing of their get people. Sonderkommandos were a major unwrap of this eradication. A sonderkommando aided in the disposal of the corpses that were victims to the gas chambers. Through the in writing(p) tribute by Filip pestle, Eyewitness Auschwitz eachows the reader to fully understand the difficulties and brilliant situations that occurred daily at Auschwitz. Filip Muller was born on January 3, 1922 in Sered, Czechoslovakia.In 1942 at the age of 20, he was deported to the death camp. He was one of the a couple of(prenominal) Sonderkommandos to withdraw survived Auschwitz. The memoir greatly details the resilience of the human spirit, the choices individuals were faced with and unyielding to act upon and, the treatment of those who had succumbed. The personal choices that some made were extremely unmoral. either day we saw thousands and thousands of inn ocent people disappear up the chimney. With our own eyes, we could truly fathom what it means to be a human being.There they came, men, women, children, all innocent. They suddenly vanished, and the world said nothing .. An example of an unmoral prisoner was the Kapo Mietek, who was trusted to discipline the working prisoners. According to Muller, it was not necessary for Mietek to treat his fashion plate prisoners as human beings but rather beat them mercilessly to educe appreciation from the national socialist leaders. Another theme that Muller presents in his testimony is dehumanization of the camps victims.Approximately seventy percent of the prisoners that arrived at Auschwitz were outright gassed. Their hair was shaven and their bo analyses were exploited in order to find valuables for the Nazis economic gain. A memoir is by definition arecordofeventswrittenbyapersonhavingintimate fellowshipofthemandbasedonpersonalobservation. While Filip Mullers testimony could be extre mely accurate, it could also be extremely flawed. As a prisoner at a death camp-watching people die daily, it can weigh heavily on ones conscious.This in turn can alter ones memory and/or create an entire new memory that never happened. The validity of Mullers memoir could all be a figment of his visual sensation due to the emotional and physical stress and agony of being a prisoner although I highly doubt that the validity is compromised. Eyewitness Auschwitz is a key document of the Holocaust. It is published with an association of the United States Holocaust muniment Museum, which is highly renown. Eyewitness Auschwitz is a personal testimony of the hell that resided at bottom the death camps.Filip Muller does an excellent job of describing the daily activities of a Sonderkommando, which few lived to tell about. At times it is extremely difficult to read due to the graphic nature of the text. Muller discusses themes that the entire camp system was even out on such as dehuman ization and the immorality of the soldiers as wellspring as fellow prisoners. Filip Muller wrote a very powerful watchword that reaches deep within the reader and wrenches on their emotions.