THE SONDERKOMMANDO REVOLT AT DEATH CAMP AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU WAS ORGANIZED
BY SALONICA JEWS: ...One action will stand out alongside the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising and that is the Revolt of the Sonderkommando in
Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 7, 1944. This was an uprising in which
Sephardi and Greeks Jews both helped plan and execute and left a
memorable list of heroes and martyrs to posterity. Their victory was
dual: it was a psychological victory over the Nazis who now feared the Jews
in the camps and hastened their declining confidence in winning or even
surviving the war and secondly, they died as free men in the tradition
of Greek noble death, an outcome that has become part of western
tradition, namely to fight against all odds until the very end and deny
the enemy the opportunity to loot and gloat. The world forgets not only
that Sephardic Jewry suffered during the Holocaust too, but that Jews
were brave enough to revolt and fight under the most hopeless
circumstance They are hungry, tortured, abused, sick, ailing, armed only
with an ingenious plot and self-made guns and explosives. Against the
Empire of the Third Reich. They are performing the ultimate sacrifice
for their fellow man and woman.
