Treblinka - A Survivor's memory (includes Vasily Grossman's 'The Hell of Rreblinka')
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was twenty-eight years old when he was arrested and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 Jews were murdered. His sister travelled with him and was immediately sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same corpses. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp, and he was among the handful of men who managed to escape.
Even before the war was over, while still in hiding, he set down in a notebook this unembellished and exact record of the raw horror he endured every day at the camp. This unique testimony has remained in the sole possession of his family since then, and has never before been published in English.
In addition to Rajchman's account, this volume includes the complete text of Vasily Grossman's "The Hell of Treblinka".