17 Facts About Chil Rajchman

Chil Rajchman reached Warsaw, where he participated in the resistance in the city, before it was captured by the Soviet Union.

In 1980, Chil Rajchman was contacted by the United States Justice Department through the consulate.

Chil Rajchman was among several survivors who testified against John Demjanjuk, by then a naturalized US citizen, who was suspected of having been a notorious Trawniki, or guard at Treblinka known as "Ivan the Terrible".

Chil Rajchman's testimony contributed to Demjanjuk being prosecuted and convicted in Israel, but this was overturned on appeal.

Chil Rajchman's mother died when he was young, and he was one of six children raised by his widowed father.

Chil Rajchman was rounded up on October 10,1942, along with other ghetto inmates, loaded onto a Holocaust train, and sent to Treblinka extermination camp.

Chil Rajchman was ordered to cut the hair of disrobed women before they were gassed.

Chil Rajchman was with some one hundred prisoners who escaped during this attack.

Chil Rajchman was among the 70 men from the revolt to survive through the end of the war.

Chil Rajchman was among the activists who helped gain founding of the Museum of the Holocaust and the Holocaust Memorial, both in Montevideo.

In 1980, Chil Rajchman was contacted in Uruguay by the American embassy.

Chil Rajchman went to the United States to testify against John Demjanjuk, who had been in the US for years and was a naturalized citizen.

Chil Rajchman was among witnesses who identified Demjanjuk as the Trawniki guard known as "Ivan the Terrible".

Chil Rajchman had failed to identify him from a wartime photograph, but identified Demjanjuk at trial.

Chil Rajchman's testimony contributed to Demjanjuk's conviction, although he was later released on appeal because new evidence about his identity was found in newly declassified Soviet archives made available to researchers.

Chil Rajchman later said that his original manuscript had been edited and proofread in 1946 by poet Nachum Bomze.

Chil Rajchman was featured late in life in the Uruguayan documentary film Despite Treblinka, along with fellow survivors of the revolt, Kalman Taigman and Samuel Willenberg, then living in Jerusalem.