Treblinka
A Survivor's Memory
$48.61
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2012
Summary
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943, there was an uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the han…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849163996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849163995 |
| Author: | Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 132mm x 197mm |
| Series: | MacLehose Press |
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Critics Review
‘This is one of the most horrific books I have read, and I found it impossible to put down … a major addition to the literature of the Holocaust’ Mail on Sunday.
‘His 96-page memoir, translated from the original Yiddish, has a powerful immediacy’ Martin Gilbert, The Times. * The Times *
‘The small details, both poignant and horrific, leave a mark, which is as it should be’ The Irish Examiner. * Irish Examiner *
‘This is one of the most horrific books I have read, and I found it impossible to put down … a major addition to the literature of the Holocaust’ Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *
‘This is an important book that deserves a prominent place in Holocaust literature’ Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
‘Rajchman describes the indescribable in this devastating account of surviving Treblinka … An essential and unforgettable piece of Holocaust testimony’ Robert Collins, Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *
Chil Rajchman
Chil Rajchman was born in Lodz in Poland, and was an active member of his Jewish community. After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004.
Solon Beinfeld taught Modern European and Jewish History at Washington University in St. Louis and he has written extensively on the Holocaust.
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