Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 11, Chaskiel Menche

Interview with Chaskiel Menche (Kolo 7 January 1910). Menche arrived in Sobibor in the summer of 1942 and he was briefly put to work in the sorting barracks. He was then appointed to shine shoes and make caps. Together with others he prepared a plan to murder Himmler during a visit to the camp. His desire for revenge was fulfilled when he stabbed a guard during the uprising: "My heart is lighter now for I stood in his blood".

He grew up in a closed Jewish community and spoke mainly Yiddish. In 1937 he married Hella Podchlebnik. His wife and child were killed in Sobibor. During his escape the Germans shot him in the leg. Chaskiel Menche settled in Melbourne where he died in 1984.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zsh-hjxh
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-3hsp-5o
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:50493
Provenance
Creator Jules Schelvis; NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Dunya Breur
Publication Year 2012
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language Dutch; Flemish
Resource Type Dataset
Format video/mp4; MP4
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage Sobibor; Poland; Czech Republic