Eliahu Rosenberg

 Testimony about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial 1961

(Selected Extracts)

Eliahu Rosenberg was deported from Warsaw to Treblinka along with his mother and three sisters in September 1942. He escaped during the revolt on the 2 August 1943.

At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Eliahu Rosenberg described their arrival, a member of the Blau Kommando said:

“He did not say it to me, but to his friend, an acquaintance of his, in Yiddish, “Moshe, chap a besem un rateve sich!” (Moshe, grab a broom and save yourself)

“This man took hold of a broom that was lying at the side, went into the freight cars and began sweeping the cars. Kurt Franz – he passed by with a peitsche (whip) in his hand, and took men from the ranks who were sitting on the floor several men, about thirty of them. When I saw this I jumped into this group, with a parcel in my hand, and I stood there together with them.

Eliahu Rosenberg arrived in Treblinka with his mother and three sisters:  

“When we alighted from the freight cars amidst the shouting, they transferred my mother and my sisters to the left-hand side. I managed to exchange one word with my mother:

“If you reach any place write a letter to a Pole named Kowalski in Warsaw and I shall also send a letter to you, and in this way we shall know where we are.”

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