Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Arad Yitzhak

Author:Arad, Yitzhak [Arad, Yitzhak]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780253113696
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1987-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

In some survivors’ testimonies there is some criticism of the prisoners who were put to work in the transport area. Oscar Strawczinski from Treblinka writes:

The yard is full of people. On one side women and small children, and on the other side, kneeling men. In the center armed SS men and Ukrainians and a group of about forty men with red bands on their sleeves. These were the Jews from the “red” group. In the jargon of Treblinka they were called the “burial society.” At the head of the group was Jurek, in the past a crude wagon driver from Warsaw for whom the most despicable thing was not despicable at all . . . dressed elegantly—something which was not a special problem in Treblinka—with a whip in his hand, which he frequently used on the Jews. . . .9

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