![]() ![]() Next, all the men, and women, old people and children had to fall into line and proceed from Camp No. Afterwards, they were lined up and the healthiest, strongest and best-built among them were beaten until their blood flowed freely. They then had to go into the barrack where the women had undressed, and carry the latter’s clothes out and arrange them properly. Men ‘had to undress in the yard, make a neat bundle of their clothing, carry the bundle to a designated spot and deposit it on the pile. During these works, Wiernik watched the operation of the death machine. When the overseers found out that he was an experienced carpenter, they sent him to construction works in the camp. In the first days after his arrival, Wiernik was forced to segregate looted property and bury the murdered victims in mass graves. ![]() Their faces distorted with fright and awe’. The ukrainians were standing on the roofs above the barracks with rifles and machine guns.The camp yard was littered with corpses, some still in their clothes and some naked. Only on arriving there did the horrible truth dawn on us. the train got under way again and, within a few minutes, we came into the Treblinka Camp. Even so, some people who sent to death did not fully realize where the train was going. Captured by the Germans during the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto, he went to Treblinka – like all Polish Jews sent there – in an overcrowded cattle car. How can I breathe freely and enjoy all that which nature has created?’ – Wiernik wrote in the first words of his account. įor your sake alone I continue to hang on to my miserable life, though it has lost all attraction for me. He had a terrifying account of almost a year spent in the German Nazi extermination camp in Treblinka, where he was transported on August 23, 1942. At the beginning of August 1943, Wiernik reached Krzywoszewski’s apartment at Smolna 25 street. Before the war, he lived in Warsaw, worked as an administrator of a house belonging to the family of Stefan Krzywoszewski, who was a playwright and former director of municipal theaters in Poland’s capital. Jankiel Wiernik (also Jacob, Yankel in English sources) was born in 1889 in Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland. Jankiel Wiernik, ’A Year in Treblinka’ title card / Treblinka Museum / Wikipedia ![]()
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