Emi Takei

Chil Rajchman was 28 years old when he was deported to Treblinka in October 1942. Separated from his sister when he got off the train, he escaped the gas chambers by becoming a clothes sorter, hairdresser, corpse carrier and tooth puller. .. On August 2, 1943, he took part in the camp uprising and escaped. After several weeks of wandering, Chil Rajchman hides out with a friend near Warsaw. While the war was not yet over, he wrote in a notebook about his ten months spent in Treblinka. At the Liberation, he was one of the 57 survivors of this extermination center where at least 850,000 Jews were murdered between July 1942 and November 1943. —Anonymous