{"id":130770,"date":"2023-01-26T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=130770"},"modified":"2023-01-26T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:33:01","slug":"treblinka_uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/treblinka_uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping Certain Death: How the Jews of Treblinka Rose Up and Fought Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1943, the fearsome Nazi Gestapo secret police published a series of adverts offering a \u201ctempting reward\u201d for anyone who could provide information on the escaped Jews of Treblinka extermination camp. Who were these fugitives and how were they able to leave Treblinka alive at a time when the only Jews who managed to exit the camp ended up in a mass grave?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130789\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130789\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GestapoNews1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GestapoNews1.jpg 445w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GestapoNews1-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This news item appeared in the December 31, 1943 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/sydneyjn\/1943\/12\/31\/01\/?a=d&amp;d=sydneyjn19431231-01&amp;e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1\"><em>The Sydney Jewish News<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The facility at Treblinka was opened by the Nazi regime in July 1942, becoming the third camp to be dedicated to the expressed purpose of annihilating the Jewish population and committing mass genocide. The vast majority of the Jews whose unfortunate fate led them to Treblinka would be robbed of their possessions and then taken straight into the gas chambers to live out their final moments. However, a few young and relatively healthy Jews were kept alive for a short while to do the guards&#8217; dirty work. It was there that many of them would meet the notorious &#8220;Ivan the Terrible&#8221; \u2013 a bloodthirsty camp guard who would routinely torture Jews for fun before killing them (Ivan&#8217;s true identity has never been fully resolved. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/en\/hoi_demjanjuk\/\">John Demjanjuk<\/a> was suspected as a possibility and even convicted by an Israeli court before the verdict was later overturned).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those Jews who were spared the gas chambers had to endure days filled by removing the lifeless bodies, hauling them off to be burned or buried, and searching the dead for any valuable items which would be dutifully looted by the camp guards. In the midst of all this, a small but mighty group of workers found a few stolen moments to hatch a plan of escape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130802\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130802\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced-602x600.jpg 602w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Julian_Chor\u0105\u017cycki_-_portrait-Enhanced-768x766.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki &#8211; a photo portrait, part of a questionnaire submitted by Chor\u0105\u017cycki to Nazi occupation authorities. The original survives in the Central Medical Library of Warsaw (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Chor%C4%85%C5%BCycki#\/media\/File:Julian_Chor%C4%85%C5%BCycki_-_portrait.jpg\">via Wikipedia<\/a>, enhanced with MyHeritage software)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amongst this group was a Russian Jew, Dr. Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki. Born on August 19, 1885, he had been a revolutionary from a young age. He spent his pre-war life fighting for Jewish rights and the recognition and representation of people with disabilities. He also served in both the Russian and Polish armies during World War I, before finally settling down in Poland. Dr. Chor\u0105\u017cycki lived by a strict policy of helping all those who came to him for medical aid, including those who could not afford to pay him for his services. When the Warsaw Ghetto was formed, Dr. Chor\u0105\u017cycki decided that he would become the ghetto doctor and help keep the new ghetto residents as healthy as he could. In 1942, as Jews were being driven to their deaths by the thousands, he was packed into a cohort of Jews headed to Treblinka extermination camp. It was there that he spearheaded a plan to escape, and bring down Treblinka with him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130822\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130822\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-965x600.jpg 965w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/990039986020205171-2048x1274.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shimon Peres, then Israel&#8217;s Minister of Immigrant Absorption, addressing an audience during a ceremony in memory of the victims of Treblinka, 1970,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/images\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL990039986020205171\/NLI\">the Dan Hadani Archive<\/a>, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Chor\u0105\u017cycki formed a group of brave comrades and laid out the plans. The first step in the battle to escape involved stealing a key to the weapons storage used by the Treblinka guards. It took many attempts to break in undetected but when they did, the stores waiting for them were invaluable: rifles, grenades, knives and axes. As the rebels spent time collecting the goods, Dr. Chor\u0105\u017cycki was caught with a wealth of resources and immediately taken into interrogation. Faced with the prospect of turning in his fellow Jews, Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki made the decision to end his own life and avoid releasing the details of the uprising and those involved in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rachel Auerbach, in her book \u201cIn the Fields of Treblinka\u201d says Dr. Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki was one of \u201cthe faces and personalities that distinguished themselves in a large anonymous crowd and gained eternal glory in the last hours of their lives as great Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130805\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-617x600.jpg 617w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-1536x1493.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/audiobook-2048x1991.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/items\/NNL_MUSIC_AL990025953080205171\/NLI\"><em>Oyf di felder fun Treblinke<\/em><\/a> (&#8220;In the Fields of Treblinka&#8221;), an audiobook by Rachel Auerbach, originally recorded by the Jewish Public Library, Montreal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite not making it out alive, Dr. Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki\u2019s legacy lived on and the other Jewish prisoners continued to prepare for the uprising. In the middle of the afternoon on a stiflingly hot summer&#8217;s day, the guards went down to a nearby river to enjoy a swim and cool down. The Jews saw their opportunity and seized the moment. Around a thousand prisoners rose up, igniting explosives, burning buildings to the ground, and fighting their way into the surrounding fields and freedom beyond. \u201cThe fight lasted three hours and in the end, all of us who survived tried to escape\u201d said Holocaust survivor Chaim Sztajer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130812\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130812\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tribute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tribute.jpg 451w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tribute-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This news item appeared in the August 1, 1980 issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/ajnm\/1980\/08\/01\/01\/article\/62\"><em>Australian Jewish News (Melbourne)<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130808\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130808\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ChaimColor1.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"636\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chaim Sztajer, a survivor of Treblinka, pictured with a scale model he created of the camp. This image appeared in the March 6, 1987 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/ajnm\/1987\/03\/06\/01\/article\/60\/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1\"><em>The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne)<\/em><\/a>, colorization by MyHeritage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the roughly 300 prisoners who managed to escape during the uprising, between 20-90 Jews are estimated to have survived the Holocaust. Their rebellion was not in vain. Shortly after the uprising, the camp was liquidated and by August 19, 1943, those who operated the well-oiled, efficient killing machine known as Treblinka had murdered their final Jew. Over 800,000 Jews were killed in Treblinka during its period of operation, a mere fifteen months. This is the story of the rebellion that put an end to its atrocities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During its year of operation, Treblinka extermination camp was one of the most deadly places on earth. Dr. Julian Chor\u0105\u017cycki led a band of unsung heroes who helped put an end to these horrors, and gave his life for the uprising that brought Treblinka to its knees. 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