- First Name
- Menachem
- Last Name
- Topioł
- Date of birth
- Age
- Place of birth
- Gender
- male
- Profession
- Maiden name
- Mother's name
- Father's name
- Josef
- City
- Busko Zdrój
- Transport where from
- Busko Zdrój/Jędrzejów
- Date of transport
- 05.10.1942
- Story
- Josek Rozenberg's account: "Nobody told us where we were going. The station was full of Germans. [...] I, along with another friend, Menachem Topioł from the police, stood in front of the wire-covered window and looked out. [...] We decided to tear off the wires in the windows. None of the people in the wagon noticed this. They were all lying on the floors. Only me and Topioł... And I was the first to get out of the wagon. The window was high and Topioł took me on his shoulders. And I got out. I jumped. The train was moving normally. I jumped out and fell into a ditch. Topioł didn't jump out. He went to Chełmno [author's error - to Treblinka]. He was there when the bodies were taken out. And he saw how things were loaded into the wagons. And he hid among these things and returned to Busko. And he told what happened to these people. And when he returned to Busko, the Poles noticed him and turned him in to the Gestapo. They took him to the Jewish cemetery and shot him there."
- Escape
- from Treblinka 2
- Fate
- Yes
- Date of death
- October 1942
- Place of death
- Busko
Source
AYVWritten testimonies collected in the Yad Vashem institute in Jerusalem; testimony number and the relationship of the witness and the deceased (if known) are provided. O3.3553, rel. Józef Rozenberg; YVPYad Vashem Archive – Page of Testimony. Information on Holocaust victims are collected in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names in the form of answers to a survey. Apart from the abbreviation (YVP) we usually provide the relationship of the person filling in the survey the victim. Yosef Rozenberg no 590491
- Record ID
- 693
- Insert date
- 02.03.2024
- Update date
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