Treblinka

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A Survivor's Memory

Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn , Samuel Moyn

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Yiddish

Maclehose Press
01 May 2012

Memoirs; History; European history; The Holocaust

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 handful of men who managed to escape. In 1945, he set down this account, a plain, unembellished and exact record of the raw horror he endured every day. This unique testimony, which has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since, has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty, Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded.

In addition to Rajchman's account, this volume includes the complete text of Vasily Grossman's 'The Hell of Treblinka', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved.

Introduction by Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University and author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

By: Chil Rajchman
Introduction by: Samuel Moyn, Samuel Moyn
Translated by: Solon Beinfeld, Solon Beinfeld
Imprint: Maclehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 144g
ISBN: 9781849163996
ISBN 10: 1849163995
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface by Samuel Moyn. Treblinka. 'The Hell of Treblinka' by Vasily Grossman. Map. Further reading.

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/QuercusPublishing/Chil_Rajchman.jpg

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.

Reviews for Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

'This is an important book that deserves a prominent place in Holocaust literature' Victor Sebestyen, The Sunday Times. 'His 96-page memoir, translated from the original Yiddish, has a powerful immediacy' Martin Gilbert, The Times. 'Rajchman describes the indescribable in this devastating account of surviving Treblinka ... An essential and unforgettable piece of Holocaust testimony' Robert Collins, The Sunday Times. '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. 'The small details, both poignant and horrific, leave a mark, which is as it should be' The Irish Examiner.