Jakob Wiernik (Jankel Wiernik 1899-1972) A Polish Jew, a Holocaust survivor. An influential figure in the uprising in the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1943 and of the few survivors in it. Following his escape from the camp during the uprising, he quickly published in underground conditions what he went through while in the camp in the essay before us entitled: "A Year in Treblinka, " about his experiences, and eyewitness testimony of the death camp where he witnessed the murder of 700,000 to 1,400,000 innocents. Published by the General Histadrut of the Hebrew Workers in Eretz Israel - December 1944 - First Hebrew edition - under the classification "Internal" .
Wiernik deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka on August 23, 1942, where he stayed for about a year. His job in the camp was to drag the bodies from the gas chambers to mass graves. He escaped from Treblinka during the August 2, 1943 prisoner uprising, and arrived in Warsaw hiding in a freight train, hiding in various places. Wiernik was recognized by members of the underground as an important eyewitness to the extermination proceedings in Treblinka, and under their influence, at the end of 1943 he was persuaded to write his essay "A Year in Treblinka" despite his initial reluctance. Weirnik published his essay "A Year in Treblinka" (Polish: "Rok w Treblince") in 1944 as a pamphlet secretly printed through the efforts of the Jewish National Committee, the Bund, and "Jagota" (Polish Council for the Aid of Jews) by an underground printing press organized by Ferdynand Arczyński and operated by Polish underground members who worked in the printing press (subordinate to the Germans) of the Polish newspaper Nowy Kurier Warszawski. The Polish edition printed about 2,000 copies of the booklet. On May 24, 1944, copies were sent through Polish underground channels to London and from there transferred to other places. They have been translated into English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Spanish and printed in the United States by representatives of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland. Before us the first Hebrew edition that was published in Eretz Israel by the Histadrut in the "pinkas katan" series as a pocket edition, in December 1944 translated by Yitzhak Zuckerman.
Wiernik continued to live in Warsaw (Wiernik's "Aryan" appearance allowed him to move relatively freely) and fought there in 1944 in the Polish Warsaw Uprising as part of the left-wing "Armia Ludowa" underground. After the end of World War II, Wernick remained in Poland for a time. On May 9, 1946, he was awarded a certificate as a fighter against the Nazis by the Polish Army High Command.
Wiernik testified at the trial of Fischer Ludwig in 1947, at the Eichmann trial in 1961 and at the Treblinka trial in 1964. After World War II he emigrated to Sweden and then immigrated to Israel, where he died in 1972 at the age of 83.
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