The Last Trial
Elizabeth Kolbert on the trial of Oskar Gröning, the “bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” and on her great-grandmother, who died there.
"I saw practically all the currencies of the world. I saw them from the Italian lira to Spanish pesetas to Hungarian and Mexican currencies." — Oskar Gröning, the Auschwitz "bookkeeper," whose job was to sort through money from prisoners condemned to die.