Chil Rajchman (1914-2004) was born in Lodz, Poland, where he was an active member of the Jewish community. He survived for a year in the notorious Treblinka death camp and was part of the Treblinka workers' revolt. He was also a key witness in the prosecution of a Treblinka guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" during a war-crime tribunal in Germany. He emigrated to Uruguay, where he passed away in 2004.
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Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography, this is a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka. Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls—in the gas chambers of... SEE MORE