Rudolf Reder a.k.a. Roman Robak (April 4, 1881 – October 6, 1977) [1] was one of only two survivors of the Bełżec extermination camp. His testimony after the war became very well known. He submitted a deposition to the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in January 1946 in Kraków. [2]

Rudolf Reder (aka Roman Robak, 4 April 1881 – 6 Oct. 1977) was a Polish Jew from Lviv who was deported to the Belzec Camp in July or August 1942 at age 61 – which should have been his death sentence.

On August 10, 1942, Rudolf Reder who was living in Lvov, then called Lemberg by the German occupation authorities was working in his workshop when members of the Gestapo broke the door down and took him away.

Reder was the only man who survived - it must be stressed - the sole survivor among the countless thousands who were murdered. Reder lived through the horrors of Belzec for three months. The testimony is his account of the murder of …

Rudolf Reder was selected to work in the camp. At the end of November, he was sent under escort to Lviv to buy some sheet metal. There he managed to escape. He lived to see the end of the war with the help of two women: Anastasia Hawrylak (Hawryluch), who worked for him before the war, and Janina (Joanna) Borkowska, a Lviv restorer.

Reder was the only man who survived - it must be stressed - the sole survivor among the countless thousands who were murdered. Reder lived through the horrors of Belzec for three months. The testimony is his account of the murder of …

Rudolf Reder a.k.a. Roman Robak, was one of only two survivors of the Bełżec extermination camp, the other being Chaim Hirszman. His testimony after the war became very well known. He submitted a deposition to the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in January 1946 in Kraków. In terms of the number...

Only two witnesses have ever testified substantially about the alleged Bełżec Extermination Camp: The survivor Rudolf Reder and the SS officer Kurt Gerstein.

It happened when five members of German staff took him to Lwow to bu sheet metal. After his escape, a Ukrainian woman, his former employee, helped him. During the Holocaust, Reder lost his first wife, a da ghter and a son. His oldest daughter survived the war and settled in Great Britain. In 1949, Rudolf Reder c

Jun 18, 2019 · I Survived A Secret Nazi Extermination Camp is the harrowing and extraordinary story of the extermination camp at Belzec. Unlike Auschwitz, Belzec is not a name we will all recognise but thousands of Jews perished there. One man - Rudolf Reder - escaped and gave an account of the camp.