Marcel Nadjari

Marcel Nadjari (or Nadjary, Nadjar, Nadzari, Greek: Εμμανουήλ Μαρσέλ Νατζαρή Νατζαρής, Nazarene) (January 1, 1917 – July 31, 1971) was a Jewish-Greek survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nadjari was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau from May 1944 to November 1944. He is one of three members of the Sonderkommando that wrote his memoirs[1] after the war,[2] along with Filip Müller[3] and Leon Cohen.[4] He took part in the preparation of the Sonderkommando uprising. He authored one of the 19 manuscripts of Sonderkommando members found near the ruins of the Birkenau crematoria.

  1. ^ Marcel Nadjari, Χρονικό 1941–1945 [Chronicle], Ιδρυμα Ετσ – Αχα'ι'μ, Thessaloniki, 1991
  2. ^ See Gideon Greif, We wept without tears, Yale University Press, 2005, p. 80 : Only four former members of this unit published memoirs : Marcel Nadjari, Leon Cohen, Filip Müller, and Miklos Nyiszli. We can consider that the last writer mentioned by Dr. Greif, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, may not be really part of the Sonderkommando, as he was performing autopsies for Dr. Josef Mengele, even if he was living with the members of the Sonderkommando. The other books about Sonderkommando members, such as Shlomo Venezia or Daniel Behnnamias, are testimonies or interviews, and not strictly speaking memoirs.
  3. ^ Filip Müller, Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers, Stein and Day, 1979.
  4. ^ Leon Cohen, From Greece to Birkenau : the crematoria workers'uprising, translated from the French by Jose-Maurice Gormezano, Salonika Jewry Research Center, 1996.