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jankiel wiernik israel 1972 rishon lezion , israel kobrin , poland biała podlaska , poland jewish 1889 participation the eichmann trial in the uprising of treblinka and testimony at jankiel wiernik underground.jpg jankiel wiernik
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jankiel wiernik

jankiel -lrb- yankel or yaakov -rrb- wiernik -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 1889 - died 1972 -rrb- was a polish-jewish holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the treblinka extermination camp uprising .
after his escape during the uprising of 2 august 1943 , wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp 's operation titled `` a year in treblinka '' consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a `` sonderkommando '' slave worker at a nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims .
following world war ii wiernik testified in the ludwig fischer 's trial in 1947 , the eichmann trial in 1961 , and was present at the opening of the treblinka memorial in 1964 .
after the soviet takeover , wiernik emigrated to sweden and later relocated to israel where he died in 1972 at the age of 83 .
