Avraham Lindwasser

 Testimony about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial 1961

(Selected Extracts)

Avraham Lindwasser arrived in the Treblinka death camp on the 28 August 1942 from Warsaw.  He escaped during the revolt on the 2 August 1943.

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At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Avraham Lindwasser described his arrival:

“There was a notice, it read”

“Jews after you have bathed and changed your clothes, the journey will continue to the east, to work.”

Avraham Lindwasser continued with his arrival at the ramp:

“They opened the freight cars - we heard the order “Get Out.” There were shouts, we began getting off, so that they did not give us an opportunity to understand where we were or what was happening

– we were chased straight away to the square, and there we were ordered to hand over our money and jewellery, we were then told to remove our shoes.

Avraham Lindwasser confirmed exactly where this took place – In front of the huts where people undressed:

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