Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Dominic Williams is the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published articles in Contemporary Women's Writing, RACAR and Holocaust Studies. He is co-editor (with Fabio A. Durão) of Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008).

Together they have co-authored Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016)and co-edited Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony (Palgrave, 2013) and Testimonies of Resistance (2019).

Analyses testimonies in a variety of media including art, film, literature and photography, to demonstrate the importance of the Sonderkommando for histories of the Holocaust

Compares testimonies produced during the Holocaust with retrospective accounts to trace changing conceptions of the Sonderkommando and their experiences

Examines how gender influenced the experiences of the Sonderkommando and the impact this had on the forms taken by their testimonies

Chapter 1. Introduction: Figuring the Sonderkommando in History.- Chapter 2. Acts of Deposition: Gender and Testimony in the Scrolls of Auschwitz.- Chapter 3. Tragic Pictures: The Sonderkommando and their Photographs.- Chapter 4. The Trials of Witnessing: Legal Testimony and the Sonderkommando.- Chapter 5. Figure Studies from the Grey Zone: David Olère.- Chapter 6.- Matters of Video Testimony.- Chapter 7. The Voice of Bronze: Filip Müller and Shoah.