Joseph Serchuk

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Joseph (Yozhik) Serchuk (

Biography

After his parents and other family members were

We continued forward and soon we saw a small house in front of us. Because of all the snow that had built up around it, it seemed very low in the ground. In front of it was a half-destroyed low awning, without doors, and half its roofing missing. ...The door opened and Jurziek was swallowed up inside. He sat there for ages, it seemed. At last, when our patience was exhausted, he reappeared with a broad smile on his face. “I've found us an excellent hiding place,” he said. “there are two women here with a small baby girl. They are very poor and they've nothing to eat. ... In order to counteract the rumours spreading through the area, about us, we decided to spread one of our own. It became known that a partisan headquarters was based in the house and anyone who said a word about it was endangering his own life and that of his family. But the rumours about us spread very quickly. Strange and different stories were heard about the house - there were those who had seen whole 'platoons' of partisans coming and going throughout the night, and around the house guards armed with machine-guns; there were those who had seen people get to close to the house and simply disappear. People became afraid to get too close, and those whose path perforce took them in the vicinity, made a wide detour, rather than tempt providence.[1]

After the war, Joseph took part in locating the fleeing

Serchuk travelled to Europe several times to testify in the trials of former Nazis including that of Oberscharführer Hugo Raschendorfer.^{[citation needed]} Raschendorfer admitted to participating in several mass executions in Nazi-occupied Chełm, and was convicted of murdering an additional number of Jews on his own volition.^[2] After Raschendorfer was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Serchuk was awarded a special award from the Nazi Crimes Investigation Department of the Israel Police.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967,

Serchuk died in 1993 in Tel Aviv, at the age of 74.

References

External links

• About Oberscharführer Hugo Raschendorfer and his sentence

Further reading

• Freiberg, Dov (1993). A Journey to the Past With Dekel Shibolim. Ramla.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Freiberg, Dov (1996). A Man as Any Other. Ramla.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Freiberg, Dov (2007). To Survive Sobibor. New York.