Acknowledgements	6
	Contents	8
	Chapter 1 Introduction: Figuring the Sonderkommando in History	9
	Gender in the Archive	14
	The Uses of Testimony	21
	Chapter 2 Acts of Deposition: Gender and Testimony in the Scrolls of Auschwitz	33
	The Deaths of Schillinger	33
	The Scrolls of Auschwitz	39
	Sex and Gender in Auschwitz-Birkenau	43
	The Play of Gazes	50
	Sadism	59
	Chapter 3 Tragic Pictures: The Sonderkommando and Their Photographs	79
	Introduction: On Attribution	79
	Limits of Seeing	81
	Wanting Immediacy	84
	Texts and Images	87
	Postmemory Avant La Lettre	92
	Words for Pictures	97
	Chapter 4 The Trials of Witnessing: Legal Testimony and the Sonderkommando	109
	An Interested Audience	109
	The Belsen Trial at Lüneburg (1945)	114
	Poland—Trials of Höss and Auschwitz Staff	119
	The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965)	126
	Conclusion	128
	Chapter 5 Figure Studies from the Grey Zone: David Olère	137
	In Line with the Facts	137
	The Reception of the Artist	142
	Ilse Koch at Auschwitz	145
	Sexual Violence	151
	Marked Men	154
	A Beautiful Death	158
	Out of Line	162
	Collage	163
	Chapter 6 Matters of Video Testimony	178
	Listening and Resistance	178
	Age and Gender: Dario Gabbai and Daniel Bennahmias	190
	Memory in the Frame: Technique and Technology	198
	Ethics and Reception: Segmentation, Transcription and Interpretation	204
	Chapter 7 The Voice of Bronze: Filip Müller and Shoah	225
	Telling for the Last Time	225
	Shaping the Voice	228
	Embodiment	234
	Müller’s Unique Position	236
	Going Back to the Archive	239
	Conclusion	243
	Bibliography	254
	Index	273