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Chil (Enrique) Meyer Rajchman a.k.a. Henryk Reichman, nom de guerre Henryk Ruminowski (June 14, 1914 – May 7, 2004) was one of about 70 Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust after participating in the August 2, 1943, revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.
Born: June 14, 1914. Lodz, Poland. invasion of Poland. Treblinka. Warsaw. Chil was one of six children born to a Jewish family in the industrial city of Lodz. His mother died before World War II, leaving his father to raise the family.
Rajchman was a Polish Jew who escaped from Treblinka Camp and wrote about his experiences. He made many implausible claims about the gas chambers, mass graves, and incineration of corpses at Treblinka.
Jan 1, 2001 · But not for Chil Rajchman, 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.
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May 1, 2012 · The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir was written by Chil Rajchman. It is the chilling tale of the death camp Treblinka by one of the very few who survived. His memoir was mainly written in hiding in Warsaw before the Soviets took it over.
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Chil Meyer Rajchman. Chil was one of six children born to a Jewish family in the industrial city of Lodz. His mother died before World War II, leaving his father to raise the family. Chil's father could not sustain the family financially, so Chil, as the eldest male child, went to work to help support his brothers and sisters.
Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory by Chil Rajchman. If one word conjures up the horror of the Holocaust, it is Auschwitz. Thousands of inmates survived, as did a large written archive. A few barrack buildings still stand as a haunting museum complex.
