Posted on 02/20/2016 4:14:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
JERUSALEM -- Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.
Only 67 people are known to have survived the camp, fleeing in a revolt shortly before it was destroyed.
Treblinka holds a notorious place in history as perhaps the most vivid example of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's Jews. Unlike at other camps, where some Jews were assigned to forced labour before being killed, nearly all Jews brought to Treblinka were immediately gassed to death.
Only a select few -- mostly young, strong men like Willenberg, who was 20 at the time -- were spared from immediate death and assigned to maintenance work instead.
On Aug. 2, 1943, a group of Jews stole some weapons, set fire to the camp and headed to the woods. Hundreds fled, but most were shot and killed by Nazi troops in the surrounding mine fields or captured by Polish villagers who returned them to Treblinka.
"The world cannot forget Treblinka," Willenberg told The Associated Press in a 2010 interview.
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Rest In Peace.
I’m very glad he got to die in his ancient homeland.
Praise to the God of Abraham.
To me the final scene of Schindler’s List,the one which showed the actual “Schindler Jews” walking toward the camera,was just about the most powerful one of the film.
Love and prayers.
Rest In Peace
Little girl in the red jacket as well.
I put a rock on Schindler s grave back in 1997.
NEVER FORGET!
“I live two lives, one is here and now and the other is what happened there,” Willenberg said. “It never leaves me. It stays in my head. It goes with me always.”
His two sisters were killed at Treblinka. He described his survival as “chance, sheer chance.”
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Wow...if that had been me I suspect my hand would have been trembling.As much as I hate Speilberg and his politics I've gotta admit that Schindler's List is probably the most important English language film ever made.
Judgement at Nuremburg on TCM (turner classic movies) @ 10 pm e.t.
According to our president’s faith Treblinka never happened.
I do remember being timid about the stone but it was so quiet and I was alone,,very moving.
Then I visited King Davids site and the Upper Room.
An action packed Day for sure.
I spent 10 days wandering around the Old City,
Unguided, just a tourist book and my Bible.
Best vacation Ever!
Thanks rickmichaels.
Only 67 people are known to have survived the camp, fleeing in a revolt shortly before it was destroyed... On Aug. 2, 1943, a group of Jews stole some weapons, set fire to the camp and headed to the woods. Hundreds fled, but most were shot and killed by Nazi troops in the surrounding mine fields or captured by Polish villagers who returned them to Treblinka.
I think the author is confusing the uprising at the Sobibor concentration camp with Treblinka. That I know of there was no revolt at Treblinka.
There was indeed a revolt at Treblinka.
His friend came up to him and told him to say he was in construction. That saved him. Everyone else on that train was killed.
Just as Eisenhower said that some day, some SOBs will try
to claim that the Holocaust never happened. That is why
he required the German residents to tour at least one of
the death camps. - My dad went in to one of them. He was
a combat veteran in Italy & Germany, also N. Africa during
WWII. Years ago, he stood in his front yard & got a far
away look in his eyes. He told me at that time that he had
seen dead bodies stacked ten feet high for a distance of
one-eighth of a mile (that was the distance up to the main
road from where he lived) & that was just the total for a
few days of Nazi killings in that one camp.) He said that
they had to kill a few guards at that one; but that many of
the Nazi guards had already left - not choosing to die
defending Hitler’s death camp.
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