Mr. Venezia was one of the few survivors of the Sonderkommando, or special units, in charge of emptying the gas chambers and burning the corpses during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Assigned with his brother Maurice to the Sonderkommando, Shlomo Venezia survived six months at the heart of the death machine set up by the Nazis to destroy the Jewish people.