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Chil Rajchman

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Chil Rajchman


Born
in Łódź, Poland
June 14, 1914

Died
May 07, 2004

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Chil Meyer Rajchman a.k.a. Henryk Reichman nom de guerre Henryk Ruminowski (June 14, 1914 – 2004) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor; former prisoner of the Treblinka extermination camp which took the lives of 800,000 Jews during the genocidal Operation Reinhard in World War II. Rajchman belonged to a group of inmates who escaped successfuly during the perilous Treblinka revolt which resulted in the camp's closure in October 1943.
After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004.

His Treblinka memoir titled "The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir" originally in Yiddish, was published in 2009 for the very first time in German and French, without the English translation which appeared in 2011 with the Preface by Elie
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The Last Jew of Treblinka

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“All were expecting to die, and every day of their life was a day of suffering and torment. All had witnessed terrible crimes, and the Germans would have spared none of them; the gas chambers awaited them. Most, in fact, were sent to the gas chambers after only a few days of work, and were replaced by people from new contingents. Only a few dozen people lived for weeks and months, rather than for days and hours; these were skilled workers, carpenters and stonemasons, and the bakers, tailors and barbers who ministered to the Germans' everyday needs. These people created an Organizing Committee for an uprising. It was of course, only the already-condemned, only people possessed by an all-consuming hatred and a fierce thirst for revenge, who could have conceived such an insane plan. They did not want to escape until they had destroyed Treblinka. And they destroyed it.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

“I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

“I become almost wild and shout at them: - To whom are you reciting Kaddish? Do you still believe? And what do you believe, whom are you thinking? Are you thanking the Lord for his mercy and taking away our brothers and sisters, our fathers and mothers? No, no! It is not true; there is no God. If there were a God, he would not allow such misfortune, such transgression, where innocent small children, only just born, or killed, by people who want only to to honest work and make themselves useful to the world are killed! and you, living witnesses of the great misfortune, remain thankful. Whom are you thanking?”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

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