RUDOLF REDER BEŁŻEC REPORT FROM THE EXTERMINATION CAMP

A shocking account from one of the most terrible places in human history. The book "Bełżec" is the testimony of Rudolf Reder, one of only two prisoners who survived the hell of the extermination camp in Bełżec. His report, published in 1946, is an invaluable document showing the cruelty and dehumanization that took place at this execution site. Get to know the story of a man who survived to tell the world about the tragedy that affected hundreds of thousands of lives.

• Authentic testimony of one of the two surviving prisoners of the camp in Bełżec
• Shocking account of life and death in the extermination camp
• Historical document published in 1946 by the Provincial Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow
• The story of Rudolf Reder, a man who emigrated after the war and died in oblivion
• Description of the extermination camp in which over 450,000 people were murdered
• Detailed information about Reder's life before the war, his family and work
• Account of the stay in the Lviv ghetto and transport to Bełżec

Rudolf Reder was born in Dębica into a Jewish family. He was the son of Herman and Fryderyka née Jortner. He attended the gymnasium in Dębica. Together with his brothers, he traveled to the United States, where he worked in chemical plants in Chicago, becoming a specialist in soap production. In 1919 he returned to Poland and founded a soap factory in Lviv.

After the outbreak of World War II, he remained in Lviv. After the start of the German occupation, he was imprisoned in the ghetto. In August 1942, during the so-called great action, he was arrested and deported to the extermination camp in Bełżec. Thanks to his knowledge of German and posing as a machinist-fitter, he avoided immediate death in the gas chamber. He spent three months in Bełżec, working in the extermination area and witnessing the genocide.

The book "Bełżec" is not only a report from the extermination camp, but also the life story of Rudolf Reder, a man who experienced the cruelty of war and survived to tell the world about it. It is an important historical document that reminds us of the tragedy of the Holocaust and the need to remember the victims.

Mireki Publishing House presents this shocking account in a new edition to reach as wide an audience as possible and preserve the memory of the victims of Bełżec. The book has 168 pages and a format of 145x210 mm, it is paperback.