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Richard Glazar (November 29, 1920 – December 20, 1997) was a Czech-Jewish inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.
Richard Glazar claimed to have spent ten months in Treblinka, a camp where millions of Jews were allegedly killed. His account contains many implausible and contradictory details, such as his camouflage unit, his interpreters, and his firewood.
Richard Glazar was a Czech Jew who survived the Treblinka II Extermination Camp and wrote a book about his experiences. He escaped from the camp after the uprising, testified against the criminals and struggled with the trauma for the rest of his life.
Richard Glazar was a Czech-Jewish survivor of Treblinka death camp who escaped and wrote a book about his experience. This web page contains an extract from his interview in 1981, where he describes his life in Prague, his deportation to Theresienstadt and Treblinka, and his escape from the camp.
- Defiance and Dignity
- ‘choiceless Choices’
- A More Complete Picture
Between July 1942 and November 1943, Nazi Germany killed as many as 925,000 people at Treblinka II. The vast majority of these victims were Jews, though the regime also murdered several thousand Romani people there. This terrible place was unlike most other Nazi camps in that its sole purpose was the destruction of life. There were no slave labor i...
Court testimonies, oral histories, survivors’ memoirs and other sourcesshow that over months of concerted planning, Treblinka prisoners’ “Organizing Committee” laid the groundwork for the August rebellion by building a network of trusted men and women. Organizers found ways to place them in jobs that gave prisoner planners complete access to the ca...
The full name of Yom HaShoah is “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day” – which, along with its tie to the Warsaw Ghetto, links remembrance with resistance in no uncertain terms. This pairing held great importance for Israel’s identity as a new stateand for a people so deeply wounded by years of terror. Whenever we remember the Holocaust, we should...
- Chad Gibbs
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and it...
Jan 1, 2001 · “Trap With a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka” by Richard Glazar (195 pages, 1992). Glazar, one of only a few dozen to survive the Treblinka Revolt of August 1943, provides testimony on the annihilation of an estimated 900,000 Jews at this death camp.
