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Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

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Jewish Sonderkommando prisoners revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau

📅 7 October 1944

Prisoners assigned to forced corpse disposal attacked SS guards and damaged Crematorium IV using explosives smuggled by women laborers. Hundreds were killed during and after the revolt. Their...