Itzhak Lichtman

Itzhak Lichtman , also spelling Yitzhak Lichtman and Jitschak Lichtman , (* December 1908 in Żółkiewka in Poland , † 1992 in Israel ) was one of 47 survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland and involved in the Sobibór uprising.

Itzhak Lichtman was sent to the Sobibór extermination camp on May 15, 1942 with his family and brother. There, after being transported to Sobibór at the ramp of the camp, he was selected as a labor prisoner from among 2,000 people , where he worked as a shoemaker. In the camp he met Eda Fischer , whom he later married.

During the Sobibór uprising on October 14, 1943, the SS man Josef Vallaster was lured away from the Lorenbahn on a pretext, on which he transported the Jews who could not be transported to the gas chambers . Apparently he was supposed to try on new boots in the shoemaker's workshop. There he was killed with an ax by Itzhak Lichtman and the shoemaker Scholem Fleischacker .

After successfully escaping on October 18, 1943, Lichtman joined the partisans in the Żukowo area and joined the Polish Army in June 1944 . He emigrated to Israel with Eda Lichtman in 1950.

He and his wife make up the main characters in the film Escape from Sobibor by Jack Gold . Both were interviewed by Rashke and their statements about the extermination camp are published in the book of the same name.

literature

• Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schelvis: Sobibor extermination camp . Münster 2003, p. 332, note 477. (see literature)
2. ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp . Münster 2003, pp. 279 and 280.
3. ↑ Richard Rashke: Escape from Sobibor . Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen 1998, ISBN 3-88350-740-7 .