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Beyond the wire

Beyond the wire

Book 2022

"In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the dead and moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums ... Every morning, Anna marches miles to the union munitions factory where she works alongside other prisoners ... she and a few...