Toscead betweox fadungum "Joseph Serchuk"

'''Joseph Serchuk''' (1919 - 6 Blōtmōnaþ 1993) wæs se heretoga þæs Iudeiscan ansæc werod in þǣm [[Lublin]] lappan on [[Polaland|Polum]] in þǣm [[Eallbærnet]] tīde. Æfter [[Ōðer Woruldgūþ|þǣre gūðe]], gecȳðed he æt gefandungum þāra Nazis and he aþegd sundorweorþunge of [[Israhēl|Israhēle þæm rīce]].

== Līf ==

After his parents and other family members were killed in the [[ghetto]] in 1941, Joseph and his brother David were taken to [[Sobibor extermination camp]]. After one day in the camp, he fled with his brother to the nearest forest and together with others fleeing he founded the core of the partisan group. During the war, the group led by Jews who had escaped from the ghettos caught nearby and from [[Sobibor]]. The group also included the writer [[Dov Freiberg]].

In 1950, Serchuk obtained a passport and went to [[Israel]]. Immediately upon arrival in Israel, he was drafted as a soldier in the [[army]]. After service, he married, settled in [[Yad Eliyahu]] in [[Tel Aviv]] and began business industry and entrepreneurship.

Over the years, Serchuk went to [[Europe]] several times to testify in the trials of Nazi war criminals. In one, the trial of [[Oberscharführer]] [[Hugo Raschendorfer]], he was the only prosecution witness. After Raschendorfer was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Serchuk was awarded a special award from Nazi Crimes Investigation Department of the [[Israel Police]].

Joseph Serchuk died in 1993 in [[Tel Aviv]] at age 74. He was married, and left behind nine children and more than one hundred grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

* Dov Freiberg, To Survive Sobibor, [[New York]], 2007.

* Dov Freiberg, A Journey To The Past With Dekel Shibolim, [[Ramla]], 1993.

* Dov Freiberg, A Man as Any Other, Ramla, 1996.

* Mark Paul: [http://www.kpk-toronto.org/archives/TangledWeb3.doc ''Polish-Jewish Relations in Wartime Northeastern Poland and the Aftermath''] PEFINA Press, Toronto 2008

* [http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/Angeklengfr.htm About Oberscharführer Hugo Raschendorfer and his sentence]

* [http://www.thepartisan.org/document/68555,0,14493.aspx Joseph Serchuk at Organization of Partisans Underground Fighters and Ghetto Rebels] (Hebrew)