单词 | sonderkommando |
释义 | Sonderkommandon. historical in later use. A detachment of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp responsible for cremating the dead; (also) a member of such a detachment. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > one who is confined or prisoner > specific type in concentration camp Sonderkommando1944 Mussulman1953 1944 German Extermination Camps—Auschwitz & Birkenau (U.S. War Refugee Board) 12 Nov. a8/2 The special squad (‘Sonderkommando’) employed for gassing and burning worked in day and night shifts. 1951 Y. Moyse & R. Stenhouse tr. D. Rousset World Apart v. 27 The Sonderkommando, totally isolated from the world, condemned to live every second of its eternity with tortured and charred bodies. 1960 S. Becker tr. A. Schwarz-Bart Last of Just (1961) viii. 422 The team of Sonderkommando responsible for burning the Jews in the crematory ovens. 1986 Observer 14 Dec. 27/5 Manuscripts..written by Sonderkommando members, prisoners who carried the corpses from gas chamber to oven. 2008 D. Lodge Deaf Sentence (2009) xviii. 279 In a way the Sonderkommandos were the most unfortunate of all the victims of Auschwitz. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1944 |
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