Testimony of Marian Platkevitz, born in Plock, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in Treblinka and the Treblinka Uprising

Testimony of Marian Platkevitz, born in Plock, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in Treblinka and the Treblinka Uprising From the witness' diary, "Diary from Treblinka": Deportation to Treblinka with approximately 5,000 Jews, summer 1942; camp commander named Post; arrival of transports of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto; arrival of Janusz Korczak and the children to the camp; murder of Jews in the camp; forms of punishment; acts of murder by the deputy commander of the camp, Kurt Franz; approach of the front, 1943; blurring by the Nazis of the criminal acts in the camp; acts of murder of Mitte; acts of murder of Mene, known as "Frankenstein"; acts of murder of Lampert; acts of murder of Kidreicher; stealing of jewelry by Suchomel before the murder of inmates; witness' labor in a potatoes Kommando; activities of people in a Kommando to sort money, Goldjuden; obtains weapons before the uprising; Gustav Mueller, the murderer; people in the underground (detailed on page 11); commander of the underground, Chorazycki, and his death; engineer Galewski, and his role in the uprising; Moshe Laks; activities by Pupczyk and Koziebrocki in the underground; Rudek Lubraniecki, commander of the uprising; acts of sabotage on installations and storerooms in the camp; break-in into the weapons storeroom and distribution of weapons to the uprisers by Chezkel Rozenberg and his son Shmulek, who were killed in the uprising; Treblinka Uprising. Witness gives testimony against Mitte in the Duesseldorf trial, 1964.