The Sonderkommando revolt took place 80 years ago this month. It is the only known rebellion to have taken place in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Membership of the Sonderkommando ("Special Work Squad") were Jewish prisoners who were forced to remove the dead bodies from the gas chambers and take them for cremation. Because they knew too much about the Nazi atrocities, every few months, the members of the Sonderkommando were murdered and replaced with new prisoners. When they understood that their fate was