need to know how long they burned in the ovens"). He sat as chair of the Auschwitz Museum directors and was keenly involved in publicising Auschwitz. After the war, he was an officer of the Poviat Office for Public Security (UB) in Będzin in 1945-48. He died on June 17, 2008, in the Polish city of Bytom, following heart surgery. Films Eric Friedler: Sklaven der Gaskammer - Das Jüdische Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, 2000, 44 min Stanislav Motl: Živý mrtvý - Live dead, 2008, 63 min Books Sonder. An Interview with Sonderkommando Member Henryk Mandelbaum, Jan Południak, Oświęcim, 2008, . References External links Hans G. Helms: Auschwitz vor Polens EU-Beitritt Junge Welt, 18. Mai 2001 Jürgen Schön: Überleben nur von Tag zu Tag. taz, 20. Dezember 2004 Ausstellung Bildungswerk Stanislav Hantz: NUR DIE STERNE WAREN WIE GESTERN Dreikönigskirche, Dresden, 16. März – 20. April 2006 Sonderkommando.info. 1922 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Polish Jews Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Sosnowiec Ghetto inmates Sonderkommando People from Olkusz