The last Jew of Treblinka: a survivor's memory 1942-1943
✍ Scribed by Treblinka (Concentration camp);Beinfeld, Solon;Rajchman, Chil
- Publisher
- Made available through hoopla, Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Poland--Treblinka., Treblinka (Poland), United States
- ISBN
- 1453249257
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✦ Synopsis
From one of the lone survivors of the Treblinkaconcentration campcomes a devastating memoir of the Holocaust in the tradition ofPrimo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz.
Why did some live while so many others perished? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls--in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all were equal. A central cog in the wheel of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution, the fires of Treblinka were kept burning night and day.
Chil Rajchman was twenty-eight when he arrived at Treblinka in 1942. At the extermination camp, he was forced to work as a "barber," shaving the heads of victims, and a "dentist," pulling gold teeth from corpses. But he escaped eleven months later and survived to tell the shocking and heartbreaking tale of his experience--and of those who didn't make it out alive.
Elie Wiesel calls The Last Jew of Treblinka "an important, heart-rending contribution to our search for...
✦ Subjects
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