Filip Müller - Biography
Filip Müller (born , Sereď, Czechoslovakia) was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp.
He witnessed the exterminations and gassings of a million Jews and lived to write one of the key documents of the Holocaust; his book Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers was his first-hand account of the events behind the walls in the Auschwitz camps.
Auschwitz
He was brought up into a country with increasing Nazi propaganda, where it was not long until tens of thousands of Jews were deported out of Czechoslovakia into the Auschwitz camps in Poland. In April , Filip Müller, who was only twenty years old, came with one of the earliest transports to Auschwitz and was given "Prisoner Number ". Assigned to work in the construction of crematoriums and installation of gas chambers, Müller witnessed "the families, the townships and the cities of Jewish people come", and was ordered to burn the dead bodies in crematories. His extraordinary situation of cremating corpses was the only reason the Nazis kept him alive.
The arrivals of innocent men, women and children who entered Ausch
Müller, Filip
Nationality: Czechoslovakian. Career: Prisoner, Auschwitz, Award: International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism prize, , for Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
Publication
Memoir
Sonderbehandlung: Drei Jahre in den Krematorien und Gaskammern von Auschwitz, with Helmut Freitag. ; translated as Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers, edited by Susanne Flatauer, (first published as The Death Factory , ); as Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando,
* * *Filip Müller's bleak testimony Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers is his account of his time in the Sonderkommando, the special squads that dealt with the processing, murder, and disposal of the bodies of the victims of the Nazis. These units have attracted a great deal of attention, yet there are few survivors and accounts (another is Rebecca Camhi Fromer, The Holocaust Odysseys of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando, ). Primo Levi , in his essay "The Gray Zone" from The Drowned and the Saved, writes: "Conceiving and organising the squads was National Socialism's most demonic crime. Behind the pragmatic aspect … ot
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Ne me dites pas que vous vous intéressez à la Shoah et que vous ne connaissez pas son nom. Comment le nom de Filip Müller peut-il vous être inconnu ?
Je sais bien pourtant que tel est le cas de beaucoup. Je le sais, mais je le supporte mal. A tant de "spécialistes de la Shoah" j’ai demandé s’ils avaient des nouvelles de Filip Müller. Toujours la même réponse, négative, voire même "il est mort, Müller, non ?" sans même de "Monsieur", sans même un "Filip". Non, M. Filip Müller n’est pas mort. Il nous a donné tout ce qu’il pouvait puis s’est retiré, ne souhaitant plus aucun contact. Ce choix doit certes être absolument respecté. Pour autant, que son témoignage disparaisse dans une indifférence qui semble générale me scandalise.
Filip Müller est un témoin d’exception, d’une humanité exemplaire. Il faut le dire, le répéter, l’expliquer. L’oubli dans lequel il est tombé est inacceptable. Finalement, et c’est un comble, seuls les négationnistes semblent avoir vraiment pris la mesure de la valeur de cet homme, cherchant à nous persuader qu’il est un "faux témoin", comme ils qualifient les survivants qui nous ont laissé des témoignages fondamentaux.
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One of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it, Filip Müller has written one of the key documents of the Holocaust: Eyewitness Auschwitz, or Auschwitz inferno : the testimony of a Sonderkommando. Filip Müller, a twenty years old Jew, came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April A month later, he found himself inside Crematorium II of Auschwitz, ordered to undress the bodies of the dead, and load them into the ovens.
Very few of the hundreds of thousands people who entered the crematorium survived. One of them was Filip Müller. The following are his firsthand account of three years in the gas chambers of Auschwitz:
"Every day we saw thousands and thousands of innocent 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 ..
Auschwitz Inferno
At the entrance was a signboard, and written on it in several languages the direction: To the baths and disinfecting rooms.The ceiling of the changing room was supported by concrete pi
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