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The Last Jew of Treblinka Hardcover – February 15, 2011

by Chil Rajchman (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,003 ratings
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Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography―a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka.

Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls. In the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution.

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival at Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved, Rajchman provides the only survivors’ record of Treblinka. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, Rajchman's tale shows that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember.
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    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pegasus Books
  4. Publication date
    February 15, 2011
  5. Dimensions
    5.8 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1605981397
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1605981390
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The extermination center Treblinka was located approximately 50 miles from Warsaw and became operational in June 1942. The sole purpose of the camp was the murder of Jews, a process which began immediately following disembarkation from the railway cars. The Nazis kept a few Jews temporarily alive to assist them in advancing the machinery of death. Rajchman was sent to Treblinka in 1942 at age 28. Until his escape 11 months later, he survived by working as a “barber” who shaved the hair of victims and as a “dentist” extracting gold teeth from corpses. His memoir, originally in Yiddish, is a hellish, heartbreaking account, as expected. Guards are consistently brutal and sadistic as they beat helpless victims on their way to the gas chambers. Rajchman presents horrifying, almost surreal images of piles of corpses, sand saturated with blood, and protruding bone fragments. At times, his descriptions are clinical and curiously detached; at others, rage at his oppressors surfaces. He eventually emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004, leaving a memorable contribution to Holocaust scholarship. --Jay Freeman

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“Rajchman’s searing story, frequently narrated in the present tense, has a powerful authenticity and should not be forgotten. A Holocaust testament of heart-rending immediacy.”
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books; 1st edition (February 15, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1605981397
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1605981390
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars Never Forget
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020
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A must read, especially for younger generations, to fully understand and learn from the horrific Final Solution perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Every citizen of every nation must understand that they are accountable for the actions of their government when that government commits crimes against humanity. We are our brothers’ keeper and this graphic account by a Treblinka survivor is an unforgettable, shameful story about what can happen when we fail.
We owe it to those victims of the Holocaust to never forget what happened to them and to learn how it was accomplished by Nazism. The Holocaust was the culmination of a series of events, propaganda, carefully cultivated hatred directed at targeted groups of people and desensitization of the German people.
It allowed the Nazis to literally create hells on earth.
This memoir is so painful, describing the brutality and inhumanity that prisoners of concentration camps endured, that I could not read the entire account at one time.
We’d all like to believe that such a horrendous, systemic genocide could never happen again...but belief and hope is not a guarantee.
The sad fact is: it could.
That’s why first person accounts of the Holocaust need to be read anew by every generation. They have left us their stories ....and their warning.
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Chief TB
4.0 out of 5 stars A horrifying tale of a horrifying place.
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018
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I’ve read a number of holocaust survivor tales and this one is as tragic and horrifying as they come. It happens almost exclusively in the concentration camp and day after day is a bit monotonous but that is probably how it was being there. The horrors are almost unbearable to read about and you wonder how anyone could have survived. Holocaust books are so important as the decades go by and fewer people really know what happened there. This book is well written and a tribute to the resilience of the author.
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P. Blevins
5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017
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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. It contains some of the best descriptions of the Nazi program of extermination. His very deliberate method of relating what happened to him is quite chilling. Although he doesn’t deliberately make it emotional, you can’t help but get the emotions he is feeling at any time.
Chil does not tell anything about his past prior to being in Treblinka. Through other sources we find he was born in Lodz on June 14, 1914. In 1939, he and one sister fled as the Germans approached. He and his sister were captured near Lublin and deported to Treblinka. Here he immediately lost his sister while he was chosen among the one hundred men needed to run the camp. Later, he finds his sister’s dress.
The book is neither long nor difficult to read; but it takes longer to read it than some other memoirs. This is due to his deliberate matter of fact writing that tells so much emotion between the lines. Of the many Holocaust memoirs I have read, this has to be one of the most chilling. What we know of Treblinka comes only through a very small number of survivors.
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Elusia
5.0 out of 5 stars Our History is Impoetant
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023
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This memoir reports on the atrocities committed by the Nazis. It is horrendous but Chil Rajchman is fulfilling his purpose for surviving by reporting the truth. It is clear and to the point.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth reading.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2019
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The publisher has requested that we readers review this book if we enjoyed it. "Enjoy" is not exactly a word I would use for this type of memoir. A Holocaust survivor, this poor broken man made it a life's mission to tell the abysmal tale of his time in Treblinka. In some ways he was fortunate in that his talents as a builder made him worth keeping alive and somewhat decently treated some of the time during his sojourn in this death camp in Poland during WWII. But what he witnessed and also experienced would make anyone quail! How he had the mental and psychological fortitude to even survive is more than most could do...it did. It was written during or right after the war...not sure which...and beautifully translated from Polish by the publisher. Thank you for bringing this book to publication in English! The horrors were many and some quite new to me even though I am well read on the subject. Told in a vivid but not self pitying manner, the reader can only imagine how tortuous it would have been for the author to put the words and descriptions to paper. A thousand blessings on your eternal soul, Sir!!!!!
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Muggsy60
3.0 out of 5 stars Very Short Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2013
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I was hoping for more out of this book. I finished this book in an hour. It's definitely for school age kids - maybe I missed that in the description somewhere. I was really disappointed in the lack of detail. There's some, don't get me wrong, but this book is a narrative by someone who wants you to know something, but doesn't elaborate very much. I have just finished Escape from Sobibor and maybe I'm comparing the two but Treblinka was just too simply written and not long enough of a book for me to really enjoy it. Happy ending though, and I always enjoy reading about this period of history, it's that some books are better than others.
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Eilene
4.0 out of 5 stars The horrors you don't want to believe
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2022
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The horrors of this war still astound me. It makes me physically sick to know how evil people can be. The only fault I can find in this book is that the writer seem amateur. The storyline was excellent.
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Ute Frank
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable cruelty and hatred. How can a whole nation lose their moral compass to a madman.
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2023
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What is most disturbing is that we can see the same blind fevor today. I don't know how anyone could survive such a horrific ordeal. How did the German people justify murdering babies and children. I don't understand.
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Anneque3
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing story
Reviewed in Spain on December 2, 2018
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ethel delderfield
5.0 out of 5 stars An informative account.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2015
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A very informative book but deeply sad.
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Joseph Paquette
4.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
Reviewed in Canada on August 10, 2020
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This book tells of the horror of Treblinka in a matter of fact way. The author presents those who are running the camp as what they were - murderers!
If you visualize yourself as being an inmate of this hell hole, you can experience the shock, the heartbreak of being separated from your loved ones, the insecurity of not knowing when the axe would fall on you, and the need to deaden your feelings or else losing all hope, choosing escape through suicide.
This is a factual story that needed to be told and I am glad the author survived to tell it.
Recommend this book, especially in these times, when the growing threat to individual freedom is increasing little by little every day.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2015
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