The Last Jew of Treblinka, Chil Rajchman
The Last Jew of Treblinka, Chil Rajchman
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The Last Jew of Treblinka
A Survivor’s Memory, 1942–1943

Author: Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2017

Synopsis

Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography, this is 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 in 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 account shows that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember.

About Chil Rajchman

Chil Rajchman (1914–2004) was born in Lodz, Poland, where he was an active member of the Jewish community. He survived for a year in the notorious Treblinka death camp and was part of the Treblinka workers’ revolt. He was also a key witness in the prosecution of a Treblinka guard known as “Ivan the Terrible” during a war-crime tribunal in Germany. He emigrated to Uruguay, where he passed away in 2004.

About Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University. He has published several books and writes in venues such as the Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, New Republic, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anastasia on May 16, 2012

The Deepest Circle of Hell I came across the name of Chil Rajchman fairly recently. It was while reading The Road, an anthology of the shorter writings, fiction and non-fiction, of Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows. To be more exact it was in the appendices, the piec......more

Goodreads review by Helen on February 23, 2013

I've met Jews who survived Auschwitz. I have never met anyone who survived Treblinka, never even heard of someone who survived. Now I know why. This book is a testament of unimaginable, incomprehensible horror.......more

Goodreads review by Parissa on September 01, 2018

" خون ده هزار قربانى نميتواند در صلح و آرامش باشد، خونشان مرتبا تا سطح زمين بالا مى آيد. " ص ٩٤ داستانى بسيار تلخ و غم انگيز و آزاردهنده. متن روان و خوشخوان.......more

Goodreads review by Lorenzo on March 12, 2014

Jean Amery, Tadeusz Borowski, Imre Kertesz, Primo Levi, Boris Pahor, Elie Wiesel… The list of authors who survived Nazi concentration and extermination camps finding the strength to tell the world about them could have been longer. Had beautiful minds such as Janusz Korczak, Irene Nemirovsky and Anta......more

Quotes

“An important, heartrending contribution to our search for truth.” Elie Wiesel, New York Times bestselling author

“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.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Rajchman’s chilling, vivid, and concise account of his horrific experiences…is an important addition to the survivor narrative.” Publishers Weekly

“A hellish, heartbreaking account, as expected…A memorable contribution to Holocaust scholarship.” Booklist

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