Treblinka Survivor The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

by Smith, Mark S

• ISBN13: 9780752463711
• ISBN10: 0752463713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-01
• Publisher: Spellmount

Summary

The story of a man who survived Treblinka, to be haunted by his memories for 50 yearsand 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 Including previously unpublished photographs, this book traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and details what he had to do to achieve this.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.

Author Biography

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	p. 7
Preface by Sam Sperling	p. 9
The Bridge	p. 11
The Book	p. 21
Poland	p. 31
Klobuck	p. 37
Cz stochowa	p. 53
The Plan Unfolds	p. 65
To The Gates of Hell	p. 71
Ghosts of Treblinka	p. 77
Treblinka in History	p. 83
The Selection	p. 91
Between Life and Death	p. 99
The Spite	p. 111
Conspiracy	p. 115
Uprising and Escape	p. 127
The Forest	p. 137
Auschwitz	p. 147
Germany	p. 157
Restless and Hopeful	p. 167
Memory	p. 179
The Search for Life	p. 193
Shock Treatment	p. 207
The Final Struggle	p. 219
The End	p. 227
Hope	p. 233
Postscript: Piecing Together a Life	p. 241
Appendix: Hershl's Testimony	p. 243
Index	p. 253
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