Editing Sonderkommando (section)

===Auschwitz===
{{Main|Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz}}

In October 1944, the ''Sonderkommando'' rebelled at [[Cremation#World War II|Crematorium IV]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz II]]. For months, young Jewish women workers had been smuggling small packets of [[gunpowder]] out of the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke, a munitions factory in an industrial area between the main camp of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II. The gunpowder was passed along a smuggling chain to ''Sonderkommando'' in Crematorium IV. The plan was to destroy the gas chambers and crematoria and launch an uprising.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/research/the-center-for-advanced-holocaust-studies/miles-lerman-center-for-the-study-of-jewish-resistance/medals-of-resistance-award/auschwitz-revolt |title=Auschwitz Revolt (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) |publisher=Ushmm.org |access-date=8 February 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511221459/https://www.ushmm.org/research/the-center-for-advanced-holocaust-studies/miles-lerman-center-for-the-study-of-jewish-resistance/medals-of-resistance-award/auschwitz-revolt |url-status=live }}</ref>

However, on the morning of 7 October 1944, the camp resistance warned the ''Sonderkommando'' in Crematorium IV that they were to be killed, and the ''Sonderkommando'' attacked the ''SS'' and [[Kapo (concentration camp)|''Kapos'']] with two machine guns, axes, knives, and grenades, killing three and injuring about a dozen more.<ref>{{cite book|title=Auschwitz: The Nazis and the "Final Solution"|last=Rees|first=Laurence|year=2012|publisher=Random House|page=324}}</ref> Some of the ''Sonderkommando'' escaped from the camp, but most were recaptured later the same day.<ref name="autogenerated1993"/> Of those who did not die during the uprising itself, 200 were later forced to strip and lie face down before being shot in the back of the head. A total of 451 ''Sonderkommandos'' were killed that day.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Wacław Długoborski|author2=Franciszek Piper|title=Auschwitz 1940–1945: Mass murder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wtnAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum|isbn=978-83-85047-87-2|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=7 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007215401/https://books.google.com/books?id=_wtnAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Yisrael Gutman|author2=Michael Berenbaum|author3=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|title=Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mub823JQrdUC&pg=PA501|year=1998|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-20884-X|page=501|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=7 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007215309/https://books.google.com/books?id=mub823JQrdUC&pg=PA501#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gideon Greif|title=We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpGzGE6UK7wC&pg=PA44|year=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-13198-7|page=44|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=7 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007215309/https://books.google.com/books?id=IpGzGE6UK7wC&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>