Lot 420
"A Year in Treblinka" – Yankel Wiernik – New-York, 1944
A Year in Treblinka by Yankel Wiernik. New-York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland, 1944. English. The booklet "A Year in Treblinka" includes Yankel Wiernik's testimony about Treblinka extermination camp and a drawing of the camp area.
Wiernik (1887-1972) was born in Brisk province (present day Brest in Belarus). Was of tamong the defenders of the "Bund" movement and worked as a carpenter in Warsaw. In 1942 was deported from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp where he stayed for a year, until August 1943 when the uprising broke out. Wiernik was a dominant figure in this uprising and one of the few survivors. When he succeeded to escape he returned to Warsaw and joined the Communist underground organization "Armia Ludowa" ("People's Army"). The composition "A Year in Treblinka" was first printed in 1944, by Polish underground members. Later on this composition was sent, with other underground documents, to London, was translated from Polish into English and Yiddish and was published in the USA. After WW II, Wiernik made Aliya to Israel. 46 pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. Minor tear to cover.
