page_title: Berek Lajcher
hierarchical_section_title: Berek Lajcher
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Berek Lajcher (1893-1943), inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland, leader of the perilous Jewish prisoner uprising at the camp. Lajcher was killed in the revolt on August 2, 1943 along with most of its participants. Photograph from his university years in Warsaw, published by Roman Weinfeld in Midrasz bi-monthly, 2013. Polski: Dr. Berek Lajcher (1893-1943), więzień obozu śmierci Treblinka w czasie Holokaustu w okupowanej Polsce, przywódca żydowskiego powstania w obozie, poniósł śmierć 2go sierpnia 1943. Fotografia z lat studenckich na wydziale medycyny w Warszawie, opublikowana przez Romana Weinfelda w dwumiesięczniku Midrasz, 2013. Source: "Jedno tylko życie – Berek Lajcher" by Roman Weinfeld.
context_page_description: Berek Lajcher was a Jewish physician and social activist from Wyszków before the Holocaust in Poland, remembered for his leadership in the prisoner uprising at Treblinka extermination camp. More than 800,000 Jews, as well as unknown numbers of Romani people, were murdered at Treblinka in the course of Operation Reinhard in World War II.
  Lajcher was a graduate of the Warsaw University Faculty of Medicine in 1924, and a retired officer of the Polish Army from the Polish–Soviet War. After the German invasion of Poland during World War II, Lajcher was expelled by the Nazis along with all Polish Jews from Wyszków, and relocated to Węgrów, from where he was deported to Treblinka, the secretive forest camp where Jewish men, women and children were being put to death in gas chambers.
  Lajcher became the leader and clandestine organizer of the Treblinka revolt. On 2 August 1943, after a long period of preparation, the prisoners stole some weapons from the arsenal and made an attempt at an armed escape from the Totenlager. Lajcher was killed in the fighting. Several Trawniki guards were killed and some 150 Jewish prisoners escaped. Gassing operations at the camp ended soon after the revolt.
context_section_description: Berek Lajcher (24 October 1893 – 2 August 1943) was a Jewish physician and social activist from Wyszków before the Holocaust in Poland, remembered for his leadership in the prisoner uprising at Treblinka extermination camp. More than 800,000 Jews, as well as unknown numbers of Romani people, were murdered at Treblinka in the course of Operation Reinhard in World War II.
  Lajcher was a graduate of the Warsaw University Faculty of Medicine in 1924, and a retired officer of the Polish Army from the Polish–Soviet War. After the German invasion of Poland during World War II, Lajcher was expelled by the Nazis along with all Polish Jews from Wyszków, and relocated to Węgrów, from where he was deported to Treblinka, the secretive forest camp where Jewish men, women and children were being put to death in gas chambers.
  Lajcher became the leader and clandestine organizer of the Treblinka revolt. On 2 August 1943, after a long period of preparation, the prisoners stole some weapons from the arsenal and made an attempt at an armed escape from the Totenlager. Lajcher was killed in the fighting. Several Trawniki guards were killed and some 150 Jewish prisoners escaped. Gassing operations at the camp ended soon after the revolt. Lajcher was remembered by survivors incorrectly as either Dr. Lecher (sic), or Dr. Leichert from Wegrów.
caption: Photograph from the university years
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