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The Last Survivor

[Jerusalem Post] Etgar Lefkovits - In the town of Chelmno in central Poland, the Germans built their first extermination camp for mass murder by gas. Between December 1941 and January 1945, more than 300,000 Jews and 5,000 gypsies from Lodz and the vicinity were murdered in Chelmno. Only three people survived. The last survivor of the Chelmno Extermination Camp, Shimon Srebnik, 76, of Ness Ziona, died last month. Srebnik was 13 when he was deported to Chelmno and forced to bury the dead at the Nazi extermination camp. "How did I know my mother arrived in Chelmno? There were many handbags, a mountain of handbags. Once, I found a handbag with my mother's pictures and all her documents." - from the testimony of Shimon Srebnik in the Yad Vashem archives.
2006-09-22 01:00:00
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