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1. English as my first language. Arabic & French as an adult but of course I wish I spoke a lot more! 😂 2. I have had a copy of THE LAST JEW OF TREBLINKA for years. Finally read it and glad I did. 3. 3? 4. 😂🤞🏽🤷🏻‍♀️ 5. Thanks @BeaG for the tag. Anyone else want to play? @DebinHawaii ? @DebbieGrillo ? @readordierachel ? @howjessreads @4thhouseontheleft

This man suffered through so much. His short recounting of the Treblinka death camp is as bad as you can imagine and then some. This photograph is from his entry in the Holocaust Encyclopedia from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/chil-meyer-rajchman

Finally starting this one.

I don‘t know if I have the words to describe this short memoir of a man sent to a Nazi death camp. His writing was so to the point and candid. He described awful things he saw and had to do to survive. It still shocks me how people can treat others in such horrific ways.

@Insightsintobooks : These are HF
Librarian of Auschwitz
The Paris Architect
The Upstairs Rrom
The Journey Back
The Huntress
Prisoner B-3087
Girl in the Blue Coat
The Bakers Daughter
The Bakers Secret
The Zookeepers Wife
Number the Stars
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Orphan Train
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
My Brothers Secret
When We Were Brothers
#neverforget

I‘ve spent the morning in the Wiener Library and it was just fantastic.

Last day of the Holocaust Education Beacon School residential today. I was nervous before I arrived, in case the people weren‘t nice or the content was too challenging, but it‘s been brilliant and I needn‘t have worried! I‘m looking forward to bringing all that I‘ve learnt back into school next half term.

Day two of the Holocaust Education Beacon School residential programme. It‘s been so, so good so far. So much information and lots of opportunities to think more deeply about this difficult topic. Two days to go!

Heavy material, no doubt, but such a testimony to what the Nazis did in Treblinka. It is because of men like Chil that we are able to gain an understanding of the horrors of the Holocaust.

I‘m ashamed to say that I didn‘t know much about the Nazi death camps until I started watching documentaries on Netflix a few summers ago. Auschwitz gets most of our attention, but it was primarily a labor and concentration camp. Treblinka was a death factory where nearly 1 million Jews were killed in an industrialized manner. There were few survivors and those Jews were forced to remove evidence of the killings. This is an extraordinary document.

I couldn‘t pass this one up. This is on sale right now for both Kindle and iBooks.

Chil Rajchman is one of only a handful of survivors of Treblinka. He recounts the horrors of the extermination camp in a straightforward manner. I was in tears from the very beginning. This is so difficult to listen to but it must be read/listened to and absorbed to fully understand the absolutely gruesome events that were able to occur. We must never let this happen again.

Not sure how much longer this will be a Kindle or Google Play deal. I just got a copy. This author was among the only survivors of Treblinka.

Ebook deal today.