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The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz by Zalmen Gradowski Sale Books often overlaid with brooding atmosphereTranslated by Rubye Monet A unique and haunting first person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first