Reder, Rudolf, 1881-1968
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- Bełżec, 1999:t.p. (Rudolf Reder) p. 13 (b. Apr. 4, 1881 in Lwów)
- O'Neil, Robin. Jewish genocide in Galicia, 2016:pages 280, etc. (born in Dębica; lived in Lwów where he ran a soap factory; was deported to Belzec in 1942 and lost his wife and children; escaped with the aid of a former employee, a Ukrainian woman. In 1949 he changed his name to Roman Robak and in 1950, along with his second wife, moved to Israel, then Canada.)
- OCLC, 23 May 2000(hdg.: Reder, Rudolf, 1881- )
- Wikipedia, viewed March 21, 2019Rudolf Reder (was one of only two Holocaust survivors of the Belzec extermination camp to testify after the war. He submitted a deposition to the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in January 1946 in Krakow. He was transported to Belzec on August 11, 1942 from the Lwow ghetto and was assigned to the Sonderkommando. He had to maintain engines for the gas chambers among other things. At the end of November 1942, he escaped with the help of a former employee and a Polish woman, Joanna Borkowska whom he married after the war. In 1946 he published his testimony in Polish in a book entitled Bełżec. In 1950 he lived briefly in Israel, then emigrated to Canada in 1953 and died in Toronto in 1968.)
- ספר: בלז'ץ - עדויות ומקורות על מחנה השמדה, הקד' 2009].
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Wikipedia description:
Rudolf Reder a.k.a. Roman Robak (April 4, 1881 – October 6, 1977) was one of only two survivors of the Bełżec extermination camp. His testimony after the war became very well known. He submitted a deposition to the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in January 1946 in Kraków. In terms of the number of Polish Jews who perished in its gas chambers, Bełżec had the third highest death toll among the six Nazi death camps located in occupied Poland, estimated between 500,000 and 600,000 men, women and children. Only Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka killed more people during the Holocaust. The postwar testimony of Reder was of special significance. This is because Chaim Hirszman, the only other survivor of Bełżec, joined the new communist militia in Stalinist Poland shortly after the war and was himself murdered in March 1946 by anti-communist forces before he was able to give a full account of his camp experience.
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