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Chil Rajchman
“I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“I become almost wild and shout at them: - To whom are you reciting Kaddish? Do you still believe? And what do you believe, whom are you thinking? Are you thanking the Lord for his mercy and taking away our brothers and sisters, our fathers and mothers? No, no! It is not true; there is no God. If there were a God, he would not allow such misfortune, such transgression, where innocent small children, only just born, or killed, by people who want only to to honest work and make themselves useful to the world are killed! and you, living witnesses of the great misfortune, remain thankful. Whom are you thanking?”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“All were expecting to die, and every day of their life was a day of suffering and torment. All had witnessed terrible crimes, and the Germans would have spared none of them; the gas chambers awaited them. Most, in fact, were sent to the gas chambers after only a few days of work, and were replaced by people from new contingents. Only a few dozen people lived for weeks and months, rather than for days and hours; these were skilled workers, carpenters and stonemasons, and the bakers, tailors and barbers who ministered to the Germans' everyday needs. These people created an Organizing Committee for an uprising. It was of course, only the already-condemned, only people possessed by an all-consuming hatred and a fierce thirst for revenge, who could have conceived such an insane plan. They did not want to escape until they had destroyed Treblinka. And they destroyed it.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“He cannot forgive himself for having saved himself when his wife and child went to their deaths we are all as if drugged. Yesterday all of my family were living and now - all are dead. Each of us stands as if turn to stone. I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“An older woman begs me to tell her if all the men are kept alive as labourers. She knows that she is going to her death. Still, she will be happy if her son, who came with her, remains alive. I calm her with my answer and she thanks me.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“I have no notion of barbering and no idea what will happen if I cannot do the work. But I tell myself that after all it cannot be worse than dying鈥�”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“We are at once put to work sorting. My friend Leybl stands next to me. We inspect every garment as carefully as possible. On the other side of me stands a worker who has already been here for several days. I want to find out from him what happened here, since, despite the fact that I can see the clothes left behind by the victims, I still cannot grasp what is going on.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
First night in the barracks. Moyshe Ettinger tells us how he saved himself and cannot forgive himself. The evening prayer is recited and Kaddish is set for the dead.
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

“The world cannot forget Treblinka.”
Samuel Willenger

Chil Rajchman
“The murders force us to cut off the hair of our sisters a few minutes before their deaths and we, temporarily spared, do it in the shadow of the whips. We have been deprived of a reason and are the tools of criminals. My friend who worked with me sorting clothes as me quietly:鈥� Why have you changed so much? I don't recognise you!”
Chil Rajchman

Chil Rajchman
“Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed.
I no longer know where I am in the world.”
Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman
“I bend over more deeply and ask him again what happens here.
鈥� Don't you see? Here they take the lives of our nearest and dearest. Don't you see that these are the close of the poor wretches who come here?”
Chil Rajchman

Hanna Krall
“S艂uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by艂 chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi膮ce ludzi mog艂o dobrowolnie przyj艣膰 i z chlebem jecha膰 do Treblinki. Nikt przecie偶 tego dotychczas nie zrozumia艂.”
Hanna Krall, Zd膮偶y膰 przed Panem Bogiem

J.M. Coetzee
“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consoloation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”
J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

J.M. Coetzee
“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consolation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”
J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals