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Wiernik, Jankiel : A YEAR IN TREBLINKA: AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED TELLS THE DAY-TO-DAY FACTS OF ONE YEAR OF HIS TORTUROUS EXPERIENCE

New York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, 1945

First English edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 46 pages, illustrations, 22 cm. Translation of: Rok W Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel or Yaakov) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp uprising. Wiernik was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and was deported to Treblinka in August 1942. He worked there as a carpenter, building gas chambers, observation towers, etc. Describes the camp, the arrival of transports, methods of killing, and the cruelty of German and Ukrainian guards. Wiernik and a few other prisoners escaped from the camp and also killed some guards in August 1943. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation titled A Year in Treblinka consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a Sonderkommando slave worker at a Nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims. Following World War II Wiernik testified in the Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947, [and] the Eichmann Trial in 1961….Wiernik published Rok w Treblince (A Year in Treblinka) in 1944 as a clandestine booklet printed through the efforts of Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy, ZKN), Bund (underground organisations of the remnants of Polish Jews) and Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2,000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London, translated into English and Yiddish and printed in USA by American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland” (Wikipedia, 2016). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Treblinka (Concentration camp) . OCLC: 233992530. Light toning, Very Good Condition. Centrally important period documentation by an eyewitness (H-17-1B)

Wiernik, Jankiel : A YEAR IN TREBLINKA: AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED TELLS THE DAY-TO-DAY FACTS OF ONE YEAR OF HIS TORTUROUS EXPERIENCE

New York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, 1945

First English edition. Original paper wrappers, bound into pamphlet protector. 8vo, 46 pages, illustrations, 22 cm. Translation of: Rok W Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel or Yaakov) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp uprising. Wiernik was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and was deported to Treblinka in August 1942. He worked there as a carpenter, building gas chambers, observation towers, etc. Describes the camp, the arrival of transports, methods of killing, and the cruelty of German and Ukrainian guards. Wiernik and a few other prisoners escaped from the camp and also killed some guards in August 1943. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation titled A Year in Treblinka consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a Sonderkommando slave worker at a Nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims. Following World War II Wiernik testified in the Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947, [and] the Eichmann Trial in 1961….Wiernik published Rok w Treblince (A Year in Treblinka) in 1944 as a clandestine booklet printed through the efforts of Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy, ZKN), Bund (underground organisations of the remnants of Polish Jews) and Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2,000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London, translated into English and Yiddish and printed in USA by American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland” (Wikipedia, 2016). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Treblinka (Concentration camp) . OCLC: 233992530. Light toning, author's name penned onto front cover, Very Good Condition, bound into pamphlet protector. Centrally important period documentation by an eyewitness (H-17-1C)

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