Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Abraham Mondry - June 15, 22, 29 & July 13, 1992

Auschwitz--Prisoner Revolt

Do you remember a time in... in 1944, when they... some prisoners blew up a crematorium? Did you know about that?

Yeah, in Auschwitz, yeah.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, we know...we know it was going to happen.

You knew ahead of time?

There was talk around, you know. Only a few people know. I think that the partisans, really, blew the...from outside, you know.

Hm. Was there a Sonderkommando involved?

Once was at Birkenau. At one time there was the Sonderkommando too, something happened there, you know.


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