Útěk z Treblinky – Rajchman Chil (2022)

Yes, I survived and I am free, but what good is that? I often ask myself this question. To tell the story of the slaughter of millions of innocent victims, to bear witness to the innocent blood spilled by these murderers? Yes, I survived to bear witness to those great slaughterhouses: Treblinka. Chilu Rajchman was twenty-eight years old when he was deported to Treblinka in October 1942. After stepping off the train, he was separated from his friends, escaped the gas chambers, and gradually became a clothing sorter, a barber, a corpse carrier, or a 'dentist.' On August 2, 1943, he participated in the uprising in the camp 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 fifty-seven prisoners who survived Treblinka. No other concentration camp saw such a refinement of mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people. His testimony about ten months in the hell of the gas chambers of Treblinka, published for the first time, is absolutely unique. He recorded his experiences immediately after everything he went through, quickly, even before the victory over the Nazis, which is why it is among the strongest 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...