Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv,[3], 202, [4] pages. Illustrations (drawings and photographs). Footnotes. Plan of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Foreword by Simone Veil. Note by Beatrice Prasquier. Historical Notes by Marcello Pezzetti, Umberto Gentiloni, and Jean Mouttapa. Selected Bibliography. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Shlomo Venezia (1923 – 2012) was a Greek-born Italian Jew. He was a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Venezia was subjected to the typical procedure of the deported to Auschwitz: shave, shower, the tattooing of the number on the left forearm, wearing the interned uniform. At the end of the procedure Venezia was locked up in a separate and isolated section of the camp in quarantine. After quarantine Venezia was assigned to the Sonderkommando in Birkenau, made mainly prisoners in good physical condition, because of the physical effort that the job required. Venezia was part of the Sonderkommando for six months. More