Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945

During a trial held in Bulgaria in March-April 1945 to prosecute anti-Semitic crimes, a Greek Jew, Menahem Isaac Cohen, a native of Thessaloniki and a survivor of Auschwitz, was invited to testify in court. This testimony is exceptional in several respects. First of all, it is one of the very first...

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Autor principal: Ragaru, Nadège
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Publicat: 2022
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_215_0379RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2022-1-page-379?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.215.0379 Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945 Ragaru, Nadège2022 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 215 | 1 | 2022-03-18 | p. 379-408 | 2111-885X RHSHO_21555 During a trial held in Bulgaria in March-April 1945 to prosecute anti-Semitic crimes, a Greek Jew, Menahem Isaac Cohen, a native of Thessaloniki and a survivor of Auschwitz, was invited to testify in court. This testimony is exceptional in several respects. First of all, it is one of the very first testimonies before a court of law to describe how the Auschwitz camp operated, including the selection process, the use of gas chambers and crematoria for extermination purposes, and the conduct of medical experiments on prisoners. This testimony also stands out because of the court before which it was presented, namely Chamber 7 of the Bulgarian People’s Court, the first jurisdiction in Europe exclusively dedicated to the examination of anti-Semitic crimes. This record reveals the state of knowledge of Bulgarian judges about the Holocaust, as well as their difficulty in creating a space for speech that was commensurate with the crimes related by the witness. Translated from Bulgarian and annotated and presented by Nadège Ragaru, Menahem Isaac Cohen’s deposition contributes to our knowledge of the destruction of the Jews of Thessaloniki, the great Jewish metropolis of the Balkans.Cairn free access
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description During a trial held in Bulgaria in March-April 1945 to prosecute anti-Semitic crimes, a Greek Jew, Menahem Isaac Cohen, a native of Thessaloniki and a survivor of Auschwitz, was invited to testify in court. This testimony is exceptional in several respects. First of all, it is one of the very first testimonies before a court of law to describe how the Auschwitz camp operated, including the selection process, the use of gas chambers and crematoria for extermination purposes, and the conduct of medical experiments on prisoners. This testimony also stands out because of the court before which it was presented, namely Chamber 7 of the Bulgarian People’s Court, the first jurisdiction in Europe exclusively dedicated to the examination of anti-Semitic crimes. This record reveals the state of knowledge of Bulgarian judges about the Holocaust, as well as their difficulty in creating a space for speech that was commensurate with the crimes related by the witness. Translated from Bulgarian and annotated and presented by Nadège Ragaru, Menahem Isaac Cohen’s deposition contributes to our knowledge of the destruction of the Jews of Thessaloniki, the great Jewish metropolis of the Balkans.
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Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
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title Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
title_short Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
title_full Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
title_fullStr Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
title_full_unstemmed Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
title_sort le témoignage de menahem isaac cohen, rescapé d’auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945
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