Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

by Mark S Smith
Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

by Mark S Smith

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Overview

The story of a man who survived Treblinka, to be haunted by his memories for 50 years—and ultimately, to be killed by them
 
More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka and fewer than 70 came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, 50 years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation, discovered in his briefcase after his suicide, and reproduced here for the first time. Including previously unpublished photographs, this book traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and details what he had to do to achieve this. Hershl's story, from his childhood in a small Polish town to the bridge in faraway Scotland, is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis' most efficient and gruesome death factory. The author personally follows in his subject's footsteps from Klobuck, to Treblinka, to Glasgow.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780752463711
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Publication date: 08/01/2011
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mark S. Smith is an American journalist based in Scotland. He is the author of the novel Masel and the deputy business editor of the Herald.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Preface by Sam Sperling 9

Chapter 1 The Bridge 11

Chapter 2 The Book 21

Chapter 3 Poland 31

Chapter 4 Klobuck 37

Chapter 5 Czstochowa 53

Chapter 6 The Plan Unfolds 65

Chapter 7 To The Gates of Hell 71

Chapter 8 Ghosts of Treblinka 77

Chapter 9 Treblinka in History 83

Chapter 10 The Selection 91

Chapter 11 Between Life and Death 99

Chapter 12 The Spite 111

Chapter 13 Conspiracy 115

Chapter 14 Uprising and Escape 127

Chapter 15 The Forest 137

Chapter 16 Auschwitz 147

Chapter 17 Germany 157

Chapter 18 Restless and Hopeful 167

Chapter 19 Memory 179

Chapter 20 The Search for Life 193

Chapter 21 Shock Treatment 207

Chapter 22 The Final Struggle 219

Chapter 23 The End 227

Chapter 24 Hope 233

Postscript: Piecing Together a Life 241

Appendix: Hershl's Testimony 243

Index 253

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