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Shlomo Venezia

Born

in Thessaloniki, Greece

December 29, 1923

Died

October 01, 2012

Genre

Memoir

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Shlomo Venezia was a Greek-born Italian Jew. He was a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Venezia was born in Thessaloniki, where he was arrested with his family in March 1944; they were deported to the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the three main camps that made up the Auschwitz complex. During the selection made by Nazi doctors to separate deportees deemed fit to work from those "useless", which were immediately sent to the gas chambers, Venezia was saved along with his brother Maurice (Morris) and two cousins. During his imprisonment he was forced to work in the Sonderkommando ("special units"), teams of inmates that dealt with disposal and cremation of the prisoners killed in gas chambers. The member ...more

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	Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz 4.40 avg rating — 4,310 ratings — published 2007 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destinazione AUSCHWITZ: Libro: "Ricorda che questo è stato - Album visivo della Shoah" - 2CD Rom: "Verso Auschwitz" e "La fabbrica dello sterminio" by Andrea Jarach (Ideazione e direzione), Gian Marco Vergani (Progetto e consulenza editoriale), Marcello Pezzetti (Consulenza storica) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sonderkommando by Shlomo Venezia, Béatrice Prasquier (Primary Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Everything’s going fine and then, all of a sudden, I’m in despair. As soon as I feel a little joy, something inside me closes up immediately. It’s like an inner flaw; I call it “the survivors’ disease.” It’s not typhus, tuberculosis, or the other diseases that people sometimes caught. It’s a disease that gnaws away at us from within and destroys any feeling of joy. I have been dragging it about with me ever since I spent that time suffering in the camp. This disease never leaves me a moment of joy or carefree happiness; it’s a mood that forever erodes my strength.”
― Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

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“people who suffered in their childhood and had to learn to get by on their own had more of a chance of adapting to life in camp and surviving than did people from privileged backgrounds.”
― Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

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