Chil Rajchman (1914–2004)
Forfatter af Jeg er den sidste jøde : Treblinka 1942-1943
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- Juridisk navn
- Rajchman, Yechiel Meyer
- Andre navne
- Ruminowski, Henryk
Reichman, Henryk
Rajchman, Chil Meyer
Reichman, Yechiel - Fødselsdato
- 1914-06-14
- Dødsdag
- 2004-05-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Poland
Uruguay - Fødested
- Lodz, Poland
- Dødssted
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Bopæl
- Lodz, Poland
Montevideo, Uruguay
Warsaw Ghetto
Lublin, Poland
Treblinka - Erhverv
- memoirist
Holocaust survivor
resistance member - Kort biografi
- Chil Rajchman, alias Henryk Ruminowski (his nom de guerre in the resistance), was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. After the invasion of Poland by Germany in World War II, he and his family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, along with his younger sister, he was deported to the Nazi extermination camp at Treblinka. There he was put to work with the Jewish Sonderkommando unit, which disposed of the bodies. On August 2, 1943, along with about 100 other such prisoners, he joined an uprising and escaped from Treblinka. After hiding in the countryside for some time, he returned to Warsaw, where he lived under false identity papers issued by the Polish underground. During this time, he joined the Polish Socialist Party and the underground resistance in the Ghetto. In 1945, he was liberated by the advancing Red Army and went back to his hometown to discover that nearly all the Jews had been murdered. In 1946, he emigrated with his new wife to France and then to Uruguay. He died in Montevideo in 2004. It was not until 2009, five years after his death, that his memoir of Treblinka, written in Yiddish in Warsaw in 1944-1945, was first published. It appeared in France under the title Je suis le dernier Juif (I Am the Last Jew). It was translated into English and published in 2011 under the title The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir, with a preface by Elie Wiesel.
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Jeg er den sidste jøde er skrevet af Chil Rajchman, der som 29 årig blev sendt til udryddelseslejren Treblinka. Efter han døde i 2004, 90 år gammel, fandt arvingerne hans erindringer om opholdet mellem hans efterladenskaber. Rajchman overlevede i første omgang gasningen ved at udgive sig for frisør, så han blev sat til at klippe håret af kvinderne, før de blev gasset. Da fangerne i 1943 gjorde oprør, lykkedes det Rajchman at flygte efter ti måneder i lejren. Man regner med at det lykkedes for omkring halvtreds fanger at flygte fra Treblinka. Mellem 700.000 og 900.000 døde.
Det er den mest ubehagelige bog, jeg har nogensinde har læst. Jeg har aldrig forstået kz-lejrenes virkelighed, og jeg gør det stadig ikke. Men Rajchmans beretning er nok det nærmeste, jeg har været en anelse af, hvilket levende mareridt det har været. Ikke mindst pga. hans nøgterne og detaljerede skrivemåde. Rædselsfuldt.
Det vil føles absurd for mig at vurdere Jeg er den sidste jøde ved at give karakter efter et stjernesystem, så det vil jeg undlade.… (mere)