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Chil Rajchman (1914–2004)

Auteur de Je suis le dernier Juif. Treblinka, 1942-1943

2 oeuvres 354 utilisateurs 15 critiques

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Nom légal
Rajchman, Yechiel Meyer
Autres noms
Ruminowski, Henryk
Reichman, Henryk
Rajchman, Chil Meyer
Reichman, Yechiel
Rajchman, Jechiel
Date de naissance
1914-06-14
Date de décès
2004-05-07
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Pologne
Uruguay
Lieu de naissance
Lodz, Pologne
Lieu du décès
Montevideo, Uruguay
Lieux de résidence
Lodz, Pologne
Montevideo, Uruguay
Ghetto de Varsovie
Lublin, Pologne
Treblinka
Professions
Entrepreneur
Courte biographie
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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To anyone who has read as many survivor's memoires of the Holocaust as I have, it is plainly obvious why this one was not as widely read as the others. Authors like Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel made bestseller lists because they have an innate literary talent that Chil Rajchman is sorely missing, which does much to make their books accessible to a global audience. That being said, a way with words or lack-there-of should not detract from this book. Rajchman is one of the few survivors of Treblinka, so we must look past his brusque delivery to see the incredible story of survival within. Rajchman's straightforward narrative actually betrays much about his experience, thus doing the book a favour, by exposing the emotionally deadening caused by the attrocities of his experience.… (plus d'informations)
 
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JaimieRiella | 14 autres critiques | Feb 25, 2021 |
"It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth." Vasily Grossman
 
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nick4998 | 14 autres critiques | Oct 31, 2020 |
“Rajchman è un sopravvissuto di Treblinka. Ha visto tutto, sentito tutto, provato tutto. Ha il coraggio di deporre per la Storia.Il suo racconto è di una densità che dà i brividi. Credo di aver letto molte opere su questo stesso soggetto. E tutte sono dolorose... (fonte: Google Books)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | 14 autres critiques | May 8, 2020 |
A shocking, horrifying portrait of the Treblinka death camp, written in starkly plain language by one of its few survivors. THE LAST JEW OF TREBLINKA was not published until 2011, several years after Rajchman had died, in Uruguay where he had emigrated and become a successful businessman. Rajchman only survived because he was one of a handful of prisoners to escape after an ill-fated revolt. Barely a hundred pages, you can read his account in a couple hours. This is not a book to "like." It is too filled with descriptions of horror, cruelty, suffering and inhumanity. Recommended only if you have a strong stomach. An important piece of Holocaust history.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
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TimBazzett | 14 autres critiques | Apr 25, 2018 |

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Œuvres
2
Membres
354
Popularité
#67,648
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
15
ISBN
40
Langues
12

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