Here’s a gripping story of how one person, a teenage boy named Eddie Weinstein, managed to escape from one of the most notorious Nazi extermination camps of the Second World War, Treblinka. Weinstein is now 84 years old, but was 17 when the Germans turned his home town of Losice, Poland into a ghetto for Jews and then began to systematically deport them to labor camps. Weinstein escaped from the labor camp and returned to Losice, only to discover that the Germans had begun to ship all the Jews to a camp in Western Russia called Treblinka. At Treblinka, Jews were simply sorted into groups and murdered, either shot as they got off the trains or taken immediately to gas chambers.
Weinstein managed to escape, despite being shot in the leg by an SS Trooper, and once again returned to Losice. He and his family went into hiding and successfully managed to avoid being caught for the remainder of the war. He eventually joined the Polish Army after the Germans fled and fought on the Russian front lines as they pushed into Germany.
Of the people shipped to Treblinka, only 100 survived, and now Weinstein is the last living survivor.
Check out this:
http://www.zchor.org/losice/weinstein.htm
I should have dug a little deeper on that site. That’s excellent. Thanks!
And he’s on Facebook too.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Eddie_Weinstein/663913678