Given name: Jankiel Family name: Wiernik

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  • Male
  • Jankiel
  • Wiernik
  • Jewish

  • He was deported to Treblinka on 23 August 1942 where he worked as a carpenter building gas chambers. He managed to escape during the prisoners' rebellion on 2 August 1943. He came back to Warsaw and made contact with Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) and he wrote down his memoirs under the title 'Rok w Treblince' ('A Year in Treblinka') (P.Sz.).

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