Szymon (Shimon, Simon) Srebrnik[1][2] (April 10, 1930 – August 16, 2006) was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor of the Chełmno extermination camp – a German Nazi death camp established in occupied Poland during World War II. Srebrnik escaped after being shot in the back of his head at close range, two days before the Russians arrived in 1945. His testimony along with that of the few other witnesses was critical to the prosecution of camp personnel and other Nazi officials, because of the destruction of evidence by the Germans of their mass extermination of Jews in Chełmno.[2]
At the age of fifteen, Srebrnik testified in June 1945 in the Polish trial of Chełmno personnel. He testified again about Chełmno in the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and in the Chełmno trials in Germany (1962–1965) of the former SS men from the SS Special Detachment Kulmhof.[3]
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holocaust research-srebrnikwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Patricia Heberer (May 31, 2011). Children in the Concentration Camp Universe. Szymon Srebrnik: "Spinnefix" (Google Books). Rowman Altamira. p. 183. ISBN 978-0759119864. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Patrick Montague (Mar 15, 2012). Epilogue (Judge Władysław Bednarz). Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0807869413. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
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