During the "Final Solution", temporarily spared groups of Jews are thrown into the process of destruction. These men were forced by the Nazis to carry out a number of related operations in the killing centers, before or after the assassination: reception of the deportees on site, collection of their goods, extraction of the bodies from the gas chambers, burial or cremation of the bodies.
The most well-known of these groups is the Sonderkommando d'Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Due to the particularity of the site, both a concentration camp and a killing center, the distribution of operations was actually based on different Kommandos (ramp, Thumbelina) in addition to the one assigned to the gas chambers, the Sonderkommando, which, since 1945, has become the Kommando most directly linked to the destruction process.
Elsewhere, as in Janowska, Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor or Belzec, it is other organizations and modes of operation that have prevailed for these groups called "death brigades" or Arbeitsjuden.
The aim of this international conference is to take stock of our knowledge of the plural history of these groups, which remains largely unknown, despite the place held by the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau in representations.
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