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Yes, I survived and I am free, but what good is it? I often ask myself this question. To talk about the murder of millions of innocent victims, to bear witness to the innocent blood shed by these murderers? Yes, I survived to bear witness to that great slaughterhouse: Treblinka. Chil Rajchman was 28 years old when he was deported to Treblinka in 1942. After getting off the train, he was separated from his friends, escaped the gas chambers and gradually became a clothes sorter, hairdresser, corpse carrier or “dentist”. In 1943, he took part in the camp uprising and escaped. After several months of wandering, he hid with a friend. The war was not over yet… After liberation, he became one of the 57 prisoners who survived Treblinka. In no other concentration camp was the meat-slaughtering of people so perfected. His testimony in the hell of the Treblinka gas chambers, published for the first time, is absolutely unique. He recorded the notes immediately after everything he experienced, in a hurry, even before the victory over the Nazis, which is why it is among the most powerful testimonies. After the war, Chil Rajchman married Lila, with whom he had three sons. At the end of 1946, he left Poland and went to Uruguay. He testified in several trials of former SS members. He kept his notes with him all his life and returned to them whenever his memory failed him. Before he died a few years ago, he asked his family to publish his testimony. Full title: Escape from Treblinka Subtitle: I survived to testify about those great slaughterhouses: Treblinka Author: Chil Rajchman Language: Czech Binding: Book Number of pages: 160 EAN: 9788072227075 ISBN: 978-80-7222-707-5 ID: 00110670 Publisher: VÍKEND Weight: 270 g Dimensions: 208 × 140 × 15 mm