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Filip Müller (3 January 1922 - 9 November 2013) was one of the Jewish ''Sonderkommando'' members who survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp of World War II. He witnessed the extermination of Jews and lived to write one of the key documents of the Holocaust; his 1979 memoir published as the ''Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers'', a first-hand account of the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germans at Auschwitz. ==Life== Müller was born in Sereď, in the Czechoslovak Republic. In April 1942, at the age of twenty, Müller came with one of the earliest Holocaust transports to Auschwitz. He was given prisoner number 29236 and assigned to work in the construction of crematoria and installation of the gas chambers. As member of the ''Sonderkommando'', he witnessed "the families, the townships and the cities of Jewish people come." He was ordered to burn the dead bodies in ovens. Cremating corpses was the only reason why the Nazis kept him alive. The daily arrivals of men, women and children at Auschwitz were met by Müller's commando in the so-called cleaning area. He continued to tell them that they were somewhere safe as he worked around them getting ready, and in the gas chambers. After the Jews had removed their clothes in a side room, and died, his role after the mass gassings was to enter the gas chambers with other workers and to search and sort the bodies by size and fat content − to further maximize how many bodies could be burned per hour − then move and load the bodies into the crematorium chamber and to "stoke" the bodies as they burned so they burned efficiently. Their clothes were also collected and disinfected and any valuables found in them were either taken by SS officials or used by prisoners who had "organized" (stolen) them to barter with the SS officials for food or other supplies. Müller described eating cheese and cake he found once in the gas chamber after a gassing.〔Filip Müller. ''Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers'' (1999 edition), page 13.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Filip Müller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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