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OCR: October 1944 killing operations were siowing down at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp As the Soviet Army approached from the east, the German guards began turning their attention to destroying evidence of their atrocities. This especially worried the men of the Sonderkommando the Jewish pris oners wha heer forced operate the crematoria and gas chambers As firsthand witnesses to the specific details of the killing operations, they knew that the pinoM kill them rather than let them be liberated by the Allies. With nothing lose, the Sonderkommando one of the four crematoria staged the only organized uprising which would ever occur at Auschwitz. Using dyriamite courageously smuggled into the camp by Jewish women from a nearby factory. they blew up one Birkenau's four crematoria and killed sev ...