Marcel Nadjari

He was tortured by the Germans until he confessed his Jewish identity, inevitably being sent to the Haidari concentration camp for two months.

After spending two days in the Zentral Sauna in Birkenau, he and the other Greek men lived in the Block 12 of the Männerquarantäne Lager from April 13 to May 11.

[6] He was assigned to Krematorium III and took part in the preparation for the Sonderkommando uprising, alongside Yaacov Kaminski, Lemke Chaïm Pliszko, Dawid Kotchak, Giuseppe Baruch, Leibl Paul Katz, Leon Cohen and Alberto Errera.

On January 18, 1945, the SS evacuated Auschwitz, and the few thousand inmates that could walk were filed out of the camp on a death march.

Although the members of the Sonderkommando were not allowed to leave the camp, Nadjari and some comrades mingled with the crowd of prisoners.

On October 24, 1980, Lesław Dyrcz, a student from the Brynek Forestry Vocational School, found a leather briefcase buried at about 40 centimeters deep in the ground while clearing the area around Birkenau crematorium III of stub and roots.

[11][12] In his manuscript, he writes: I want to live, to revenge the deaths of Dad and Mum, and that of my beloved little sister Nelly.

[1] In October 2017, the text discovered in 1980 in the Birkenau soil was revealed after a spectral treatment made in 2013 by Pavel Polian and Aleksandr Nikitjaev allowed for 85–90% of the manuscript to be legible.