Chil rajchman biography of william
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than , were murdered before.
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Chil Rajchman
Holocaust survivor
Chil (Enrique) Meyer Rajchman a.k.a. Henryk Reichman, nom de guerreHenryk Ruminowski (June 14, 1914 – May 7, 2004) was one of about 70 Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust after participating in the August 2, 1943, revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.
He reached Warsaw, where he participated in the resistance in the city, before it was captured by the Soviet Union.
After the war, in which he lost all his family but one brother, Rajchman married.
Chil Rajchman was born in Lodz, Poland, where he was an active member of the Jewish community.The couple and his brother soon emigrated from Poland, first to France and then to Montevideo, Uruguay, where they later became citizens. There he was active in the Jewish community and helped establish the Museum of the Holocaust and the Holocaust Memorial, both in Montevideo.[1]
In 1980, Rajchman was contacted by the United States Justice Department through the consulate.
He was among several survivors who testified against John Demjanjuk, by then a naturalized
