Sonderkommando
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For other uses, see Sonderkommando (disambiguation).
Sonderkommandos (German: [ˈzɔndɐkɔˌmando], special unit) were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners. They were composed of prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust.[1][2] The death-camp Sonderkommandos, who were always inmates, were unrelated to the SS-Sonderkommandos, which were ad hoc units formed from members of various SS offices between 1938 and 1945.
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Sonderkommando | |
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Location | German-occupied Europe |
Date | 1942–1945 |
Incident type | Removal of Holocaust evidence |
Perpetrators | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
Participants | Arbeitsjuden |
Camp | Extermination camps including Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka among others |
Survivors | Filip Müller, Henryk Tauber, Morris Venezia, Henryk Mandelbaum, Dario Gabbai, Antonio Boldrin |
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The German term was part of the vague and euphemistic language which the Nazis used to refer to aspects of the Final Solution (e.g., Einsatzkommando, "deployment units").