Schlomo Lajtman
Schlomo Lajtman , also Shlomo Leitman , (* unknown in Warsaw , Poland , † October 14, 1943 in Sobibór ) came in September 1943 with the first transport of Soviet Jews to the Sobibór extermination camp . He was instrumental in the Sobibór uprising .
Little is known about the life of Schlomo Lajtman. He was one of seven people on the committee that planned and carried out the Sobibór uprising . Alexander Pechersky , the military organizer of the uprising, had also accepted him into his militant group, which was to carry out the military measures in the course of the uprising.
Lajtman fled to the Soviet Union after the Wehrmacht invaded Poland and came to the extermination camp on the first transport from the Soviet Union. Petschersky came to Sobibor from Minsk . They had known each other for a long time from the camp in Minsk and were friends.
Schlomo Lajtman had the order to kill the SS man Friedrich Gaulstich in the carpenter's workshop on the day of the uprising and killed him with an ax. Lajtman had been wounded while fleeing the extermination camp and was lying on the edge of the forest. He refused to be taken along by the fleeing Poles who wanted to save him. Lajtman is one of the main characters in the film Escape from Sobibor by Jack Gold .
literature
- Barbara Distel : Sobibor. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 376 ff.
- Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp , Unrast-Verlag , Hamburg and Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp, p. 179 (see literature)
- ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp, p. 263
- ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp, pp. 211/212
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lajtman, Schlomo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laitman, Shlomo; Leitman, Shlomo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish extermination camp inmate, co-organizer of the Sobibór uprising (1943) and victim of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sobibor |