Post by ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ด๐ป๐ธ on Jan 3, 2023 23:17:12 GMT
Treblinka Survivors
Only 67 people are known to have survived the camp link
I have presented evidence of thousands of people transiting from Treblinka Transit Vernichtungslager Treblinka. It is clear that more than 67 people survived the camp known as TII. In that link the names of Jewish eye witnesses to their transiting to other camps are named.
Member HeiligeSturm made a post at CODOH
For Alexander Donat, on his way from Warsaw to Treblinka, โa trip that normally took three hours took six or eight.
We lost all track of time, the night seemed endlessly long.โ
The Train Journey - Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust by Simone Gigliotti
Donat edited a book called The Death Camp Treblinka
We lost all track of time, the night seemed endlessly long.โ
The Train Journey - Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust by Simone Gigliotti
Donat edited a book called The Death Camp Treblinka
It seems this Alexander Donat is a bit of a "Walter Mitty". Donets real name was Michel Berg, a publisher of a local rag in Warsaw.
He was never in Treblinka but was working in the following camps:
- Majdanek
- Radom
- Vaihingen
- Hessenthal
- Birkenau (never left train)
Michaล Berg have met a prisoner whose real name was Alexander Donat at Vaihingen concentration camp. They secretly agreed to switch their names for a prisoner transport. Soon thereafter the real Alexander Donat was murdered. Berg decided to keep Donat's name as his own forever. link
Donat was liberated from Dachau by American troops (US 3rd Army) and returned to Warsaw, where he found his wife and their son.
Chad Gibbs, PhD Candidate, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken an interest in Treblinka, including the work of Donat,s 1979 volume The Death Camp Treblinka. Donat listed 68 Treblinka survivors. The research by Gibbs has produced the following information:
- 428 testimonies regarding Treblinka II
- 238 Treblinka survivor testimonies link
One survivor of interest was Ben L
In his oral history, Ben L. tells of how he survived a period of less than one day at Treblinka
before he was sent on to another camp.
before he was sent on to another camp.