Mordechaï Podchlebnik or Michał Podchlebnik (1907 – 1985)[1] was a Polish Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust. He was a member of the Sonderkommando work detail for nearly two weeks at the Chełmno extermination camp in occupied Poland.[2] Podchlebnik was one of at least three prisoners who escaped into the surrounding forest from the mass burial zone.[2]
Michał Podchlebnik in May 1945
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He was born to a family of Jacob Podchlebnik and Sosia (Zosia) née Widawska from Koło, known also by the Polish equivalent of his first name, Michał. He witnessed the deportation of his father, mother, sister with her five children, and brother with his own wife and three children.[3] Podchlebnik became a key witness in 1945 at the Chełmno Trials of the former SS men from the SS Special DetachmentKulmhof.[4] Decades later in 1961 he gave testimony at the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.[5][6] Podchlebnik was also interviewed by Claude Lanzmann for the documentary film Shoah.[7]
^ ab"Museum of the former Extermination Camp in Chełmno-on-Ner". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
^Michal Podchlebnik, 1945 Chelmno Survivor Testimony. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, 2008. See also: Mordechai (Michael) Podchlebnik 2013-08-26 at the Wayback Machine at Steven Spielberg Archive.
^Patrick Montague (Mar 15, 2012). Epilogue (Judge Władysław Bednarz). Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 177. ISBN978-0807869413. Retrieved 2013-05-14. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^According to Yad Vashem Diaries the Grojanowski Report is available at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (copy in YVA, JM/2713), and it was also translated into Hebrew by Elisheva Shaul, "Taking of Testimony from the Forced Undertaker Jakob Grojanowski, Izbice-Kolo-Chelmno," Yalkut Moreshet 35 (April 1983), pp. 101-122.
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