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The Resource The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943, Chil Rajchman ; translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld

The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943, Chil Rajchman ; translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld

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Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls; in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution. There was no pretense of work here like in Auschwitz or Birkenau, only a train platform and a road covered with sand. A road that led only to death. But not for the author, a young man who survived working as a "barber" and "dentist," heartsick with witnessing atrocity after atrocity. Yet he managed to survive so that somehow he could tell the world what he had seen. How he found the dress of his little sister abandoned in the woods. How he was forced to extract gold teeth from the corpses. How every night he had to cover the body pits with sand. How every morning the blood of thousands still rose to the surface. Many have courageously told their stories, and in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Primo Levi's "Survival at Auschwitz" and "The Drowned and the Saved," the author provides the only survivor's record of Treblinka. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945 without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, this tale shows that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember
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  • eng
  • yid
  • eng
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The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943
Title
The last Jew of Treblinka
Title remainder
a survivor's memory 1942-1943
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Chil Rajchman ; translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld
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Translator
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Language
  • eng
  • yid
  • eng
Summary
Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls; in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution. There was no pretense of work here like in Auschwitz or Birkenau, only a train platform and a road covered with sand. A road that led only to death. But not for the author, a young man who survived working as a "barber" and "dentist," heartsick with witnessing atrocity after atrocity. Yet he managed to survive so that somehow he could tell the world what he had seen. How he found the dress of his little sister abandoned in the woods. How he was forced to extract gold teeth from the corpses. How every night he had to cover the body pits with sand. How every morning the blood of thousands still rose to the surface. Many have courageously told their stories, and in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Primo Levi's "Survival at Auschwitz" and "The Drowned and the Saved," the author provides the only survivor's record of Treblinka. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945 without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, this tale shows that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
ZWA
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Rajchman, Chil
Dewey number
940.5318092
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  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • plates
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no index present
LC call number
D805.5.T74
Literary form
non fiction
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dictionaries
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1934-
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Beinfeld, Solon
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  • Rajchman, Chil
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Treblinka (Poland)
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Treblinka (Concentration camp)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • HISTORY
  • Rajchman, Chil
  • Treblinka (Concentration camp)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Poland
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The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943, Chil Rajchman ; translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld
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First written in 1945, published in Paris in 2009
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file reproduced from original
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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ocn795138014
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unknown
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1 online resource (xx, 138 pages, [16] pages of plates)
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one file format
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781453249253
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, portraits
Publisher number
MWT11552005
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
09848C22-9FFD-447C-9FB6-4797D723D7F9
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(OCoLC)795138014
Label
The last Jew of Treblinka : a survivor's memory 1942-1943, Chil Rajchman ; translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld
Link
Publication
Note
First written in 1945, published in Paris in 2009
Antecedent source
file reproduced from original
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn795138014
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xx, 138 pages, [16] pages of plates)
File format
one file format
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781453249253
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, portraits
Publisher number
MWT11552005
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
09848C22-9FFD-447C-9FB6-4797D723D7F9
System control number
(OCoLC)795138014

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