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Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was twenty-eight years old when he was arrested and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 Jews were murdered. His sister travelled with him and was immediately sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same corpses. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp, and he was among the...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls; in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution. There was no pretense of work here like in Auschwitz or Birkenau, only a train platform and a road covered with sand. A road that led only to death. But not for the author, a young man who survived working...
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