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Josel Waser Wasser

First Name
Josel
Last Name
Waser Wasser
Date of birth
about 1929
Age
Place of birth
Kielce
Gender
male
Profession
Maiden name
Mother's name
Father's name
City
Transport where from
Kielce
Date of transport
22-24.08.1942
Story
"After three to four months, a Jewish boy named Waser escaped from Treblinka and said that Jews were being exterminated in Treblinka. No one believed him, because he had not seen it himself." "A 13-year-old boy named Waser returned to the ghetto and managed to escape from Treblinka." He escaped from Treblinka in a wagon with things sent to the Reich and returned to the Kielce ghetto, he told about what was happening in the camp. He survived the war and moved to Sweden. He died in 1960 of a heart attack while in Germany, where he testified in the Dusseldorf trial against Wollschaeger and others. "It was at this time when two teenage boys from our town, Yosele Wasser and Moishe Mydło, sneaked into our camp and startled us with a bizarre story. 'We escaped from Tremblinki by being buried in a truck full of loot.' - they told the people - 'All our Kielce Jews were deported to Tremblinki and all of them are dead. Believe us, we were there, in Tremblinki, with our Kielce Jews. Theirs was a trip without return, we know it. We saw there people being gassed and burned to ashes! No one will ever come back, never again.'"
Escape
from a transport/from Treblinka 2
Fate
Yes
Date of death
1960
Place of death
Germany

Source

AŻIH 301/65, rel.Idel Bekerman, 301/2760, rel. Gerszon Lewkowicz; B. B. Zelinger, “Into Harm’s Way”, s. 64-65; YVP Rakhel Lerman (krewna); M. Feferman-Wasoff, “The Processed”, s. 44-45

Record ID
245
Insert date
15.11.2022
Update date
02.03.2024
Photo description
Photo source
The Memory of Treblinka Foundation