1. Berek Lajcher was a Jewish physician and social activist from Wyszkow before the Holocaust in Poland, remembered for his leadership in the prisoner uprising at Treblinka extermination camp.
12 Facts About Berek Lajcher
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Berek Lajcher became the leader and clandestine organizer of the Treblinka revolt.
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Berek Lajcher was remembered by survivors incorrectly as either, or from Wegrow.
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Berek Lajcher was born in Czestochowa under the Russian Partition, into a family of assimilated Polish Jews.
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Berek Lajcher was the fourth of six children of Szmul and Chai Lajcher nee Frydman.
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Berek Lajcher attended the multicultural State Henryk Sienkiewicz Secondary for boys in 1907.
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Berek Lajcher moved to the capital and enrolled at the Warsaw University Faculty of Medicine.
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Berek Lajcher supported himself financially by working as a part-time tutor.
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Berek Lajcher graduated in Medicine in 1924 and married Eugenia Banasz.
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Berek Lajcher wrote letters to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, but in vain.
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In Treblinka, Berek Lajcher was put in charge of a small infirmary for the SS after the suicide of his predecessor, Dr Julian Chorazycki.
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Berek Lajcher launched the uprising on a hot summer day when a group of Germans and Ukrainians drove off to the Bug River for a swim.