The Last Jew of Treblinka A Memoir eBook Chil Rajchman
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From one of the lone survivors of the Treblinka concentration camp comes a devastating memoir of the Holocaust in the tradition of Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz.
Why did some live while so many others perished? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls—in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all were equal. A central cog in the wheel of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, the fires of Treblinka were kept burning night and day.
Chil Rajchman was twenty-eight when he arrived at Treblinka in 1942. At the extermination camp, he was forced to work as a “barber,” shaving the heads of victims, and a “dentist,” pulling gold teeth from corpses. But he escaped eleven months later and survived to tell the shocking and heartbreaking tale of his experience—and of those who didn’t make it out alive.
Elie Wiesel calls The Last Jew of Treblinka “an important, heart-rending contribution to our search for truth.” Poignant and powerful, this memoir provides the only survivors’ record of the horrifying Polish extermination camp. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, Rajchman’s story shows that remembering is sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all.
Why did some live while so many others perished? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls—in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all were equal. A central cog in the wheel of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, the fires of Treblinka were kept burning night and day.
Chil Rajchman was twenty-eight when he arrived at Treblinka in 1942. At the extermination camp, he was forced to work as a “barber,” shaving the heads of victims, and a “dentist,” pulling gold teeth from corpses. But he escaped eleven months later and survived to tell the shocking and heartbreaking tale of his experience—and of those who didn’t make it out alive.
Elie Wiesel calls The Last Jew of Treblinka “an important, heart-rending contribution to our search for truth.” Poignant and powerful, this memoir provides the only survivors’ record of the horrifying Polish extermination camp. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, Rajchman’s story shows that remembering is sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all.
The Last Jew of Treblinka A Memoir eBook Chil Rajchman
This review will be short for what I have read in the course of two days has me experiencing many emotions—Sadness, anger and relief.I experienced sadness for all the lives lost. Anger for the atrocities done. Relief for the freedom of one man.
At first as I began reading I cried and grew mad with God. Then I was astonished by what these prisoners endured and slave-labored through. Lastly, I read the last remaining chapters almost in a numb state. I felt no sadness or anger. As if the torture that became a norm for these prisoners placed me in a trance like state. I just read the words, took in the horrific scenes developing in my mind to its final conclusion.
Should one recommend such a book? Should one be exposed to the horrors that await the reader in this book? I do not know if I would say I’d recommend it. But I will say it is necessary to be acquainted with the past of history and the bloodiness that saturates it in order to understand the plight of Jewish survivors and any survivor who lived through the nightmare to tell the tale.
May all those who perished find rest in God. May those who remain look forward to the sweet rest of God once they leave the land of the living. Amen.
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The Last Jew of Treblinka A Memoir eBook Chil Rajchman Reviews
I’ve read a number of holocaust survivor tales and this one is as tragic and horrifying as they come. It happens almost exclusively in the concentration camp and day after day is a bit monotonous but that is probably how it was being there. The horrors are almost unbearable to read about and you wonder how anyone could have survived. Holocaust books are so important as the decades go by and fewer people really know what happened there. This book is well written and a tribute to the resilience of the author.
Less a memoir than an agonizing scream of a tortured soul whose survival at Treblinka is miraculous. The writing is harsh and unpolished, making it both horribly vivid and so difficult to read. How he survived the brutal horrors is hard to imagine. I've read other memoirs of concentration camp survivors but this was the most horrific one. I believe this was published after he died and I wish I knew more of his life after the war. How can one ever put such memories behind and move forward?
Raw. Horrifying. There is nothing white washed in this account. I can't imagine surviving one day in this hell! How can one human beings be so cruel to another? How can the camp staff shuffle tens of thousands from train to gas chamber and think this is right? Impossible. Torture for amusement like the roman colosseum. What's amazing is the spirit to survive and the willingness by a few to help though it endangers their own life. To save one seems insignificant.
I have read every review of this book, and agree completely with their universal sorrow and outrage at the horrors inflicted on those poor people. As much as I despise those who who treated them so mercilessly and so brutally, I must confess that my most powerful regret is that any human person could become so dehumanized. I would rather be one of those tortured and murdered than be one of those torturers and murderers. I can't imagine anyone would disagree with me on this.
This is one man's memoir of his time in Treblinka. He with his young sister were one of thousands of people taken by cattle cars to be systematically killed. His sister was taken to a gas chamber immediately. He ended up being used by the Germans along with other Jewish men to get whatever money, precious metals, cut the hair off of women before they entered the gas chambers, burn the bodies because the German's hoped not to be found to be evil, but because of these reports from people forced to do their bidding, being beaten regularly, not fed much, in a filthy environment with lack also of adequate water, they were the voices to attest to this evil. It did happen. Humans did this to other humans. This story came out years later. He eventually went to live in a country in South America and had three sons. His memoir was needed to add to the voices speaking up about this evil. We must remember, otherwise we could end up repeating it. I had family that ended up in concentration camps and were murdered. I don't want this ever to happen again.
Harrowing descriptions depict the ten months Rajchman spent in the death camp. The story, lucid and dark, addresses the unfathomably evil, monstrous acts perpetrated on the Jewish victims by Ukrainian guards and German commanders. Rajchman’s account reveals not only how the Jews were savaged and murdered, but also reveals the depraved actions of the Nazis to hide their crimes.
Yechiel Meyer Rajchman, born in Lodz, Poland, in June of 1914, was caught in a Nazi round-up of Jews in Lublin, Poland, in 1943, and sent, along with his younger sister, to Treblinka. The graphic account bears witness to the relentless beatings, continual hunger, rampant disease and the endless torture inflicted upon the prisoners while living in insufferable conditions. The memoir stands as an excellent source of information on Treblinka death camp and on the Holocaust.
Have you ever heard something so extraordinarily insane/incredible that, while you intellectually understand what is being told to you, you simply can't emotionally process it? I found myself, in a way, as detached as the author seemed to be. I believe every word to be true but the level of evil that existed, which he and so many others suffered, to be so hellish, so beyond anyone's wildest imagining of what evil is, that I lacked the ability to despair over what I read. I feel anger. A red, hot anger towards humanity in general, but what he witnessed is so, so beyond anything I can truly emotionally comprehend. How can there be a God if this is how he let's his children suffer?
This review will be short for what I have read in the course of two days has me experiencing many emotions—Sadness, anger and relief.
I experienced sadness for all the lives lost. Anger for the atrocities done. Relief for the freedom of one man.
At first as I began reading I cried and grew mad with God. Then I was astonished by what these prisoners endured and slave-labored through. Lastly, I read the last remaining chapters almost in a numb state. I felt no sadness or anger. As if the torture that became a norm for these prisoners placed me in a trance like state. I just read the words, took in the horrific scenes developing in my mind to its final conclusion.
Should one recommend such a book? Should one be exposed to the horrors that await the reader in this book? I do not know if I would say I’d recommend it. But I will say it is necessary to be acquainted with the past of history and the bloodiness that saturates it in order to understand the plight of Jewish survivors and any survivor who lived through the nightmare to tell the tale.
May all those who perished find rest in God. May those who remain look forward to the sweet rest of God once they leave the land of the living. Amen.
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