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Filip Müller, a Slovak Jew deported to Auschwitz in 1942, became one of the most important eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.
At just 20 years old, he was forced into the Sonderkommando—prisoners compelled by the SS to work in the crematoria and gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, Müller witnessed the systematic mass murder of hundreds of thousands of victims, seeing firsthand how the killing process was organised and carried out.
Surrounded by constant brutality, he endured torture, selections, and the ever-present threat of execution. At one point, he even chose to die alongside fellow prisoners in the gas chamber, only to be pulled back at the last moment and urged to survive—to tell the world what happened.
Müller survived Auschwitz, the death marches, and later imprisonment in Mauthausen, until liberation in 1945.
After the war, he testified against Nazi perpetrators and helped expose the truth about Auschwitz. His memoir Eyewitness Auschwitz remains one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust ever written.
This is the story of survival, testimony, and the duty to remember.

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00:00The liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen allowed around 40,000 surviving inmates to be freed
00:05from the appalling conditions they had endured during their internment. One of them was Philip
00:10Möller. After the camp's liberation, Möller moved back to Czechoslovakia and testified at
00:16the Auschwitz trial, which began on 24 November 1947 and lasted one month. His testimony at the
00:23Auschwitz trial in December 1947 contributed significantly to the conviction of the high
00:28ranking SS officers Hans Aumeier and Maximilian Grabner. He also testified at the second
00:34Frankfurt Auschwitz trial in 1964. His testimony was taken into account in the verdicts against
00:41the accused SS officers Hans Stark, Willy Frank and Franz Lukas. Philip Möller was also cited as a
00:48key informant for one of the first books about the Holocaust, The Death Factory by Otak Kraus and
00:53Erich Kulka, that first appeared in the Czech language in 1946.
00:59Discover the full story on worldhistory.tv
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