Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of AuschwitzThis is a unique, eye witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been