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Rudolf Reder was his name, the Belzec survivor. He wrote a book, and though a bit hard to find, it's possible. His testimony given to the Red Army is available online, however: https://dunekglik.files.wordpress.com...

Reading this book generates a lot of googling. "Ok, so 82 people (82!!!) survived the extermination camps. That means it should be possible to find all their names, and testimonies of those who gave one." Google. Camp name + survivors. Turns out one, ONE, survived Belzec and lived to tell.

Yankiel Wiernik: Sonderkommando survivor (!!) from Treblinka http://www.zchor.org/treblink/wiernik... - his story.

- but I wasn't quite as aware of their stories as I thought I was. I mean, I've seen Shoah, I've read many books about the HC, I thought I was... Dunno... Unshockable? Sweet Mary, was I wrong. It's bloody awful to read, and yet so difficult to put down. Talk about Heart of Darkness.

This is such a nightmare, it's hard to process the words of the tale. I knew of the extermination camps (though I always thought Auschwitz was counted among them and believed a lot of the Holocaust history was roughly the same as Auschwitz: wrong!)