Jankiel Wiernik was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance. He had been forced to work as a Sonderkommando slave worker there,
Jankiel Wiernik Underground
Jankiel Wiernik building a model of the Treblinka death camp
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 N0827 318, KZ Auschwitz, Ankunft ungarischer Juden
Chil Meyer Rajchman a.k.a. Henryk Reichman, nom de guerre Henryk Ruminowski was one of about 70 Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust after participating in the August 2, 1943 revolt at the Treb
Jankiel Wiernik
…December 1944, translated into Hebrew by Icchak Cukierman. The book recounts his experiences in the Treblinka extermination camp between 1942 and 1943. Chil Rajchman, Treblinka revolt survivor, author of a memoir The Last Jew of Treblinka (1945) Richard Glazar, author of memoir Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in…
Chil Rajchman in Poland, c. 1945-1946
Stone memorial at the Treblinka museum, resembling the original cremation pit where the bodies were burned. The flat grave marker is constructed of crushed and cemented black basalt symbolizing burnt charcoal. Human ashes mixed with sand are spread over 22,000 square meters at the camp.