Szymon Srebrnik
Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor
Died when: 76 years 128 days (916 months)Star Sign: Aries
Szymon (Shimon, Simon) Srebrnik (April 10, 1930 – August 16, 2006) was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor of the Chelmno 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 prosecution of camp personnel and other Nazi officials, because of the destruction of evidence by the Germans of their mass extermination of Jews in Chelmno.
At the age of fifteen, Srebrnik testified in June 1945 in the Polish trial of Chelmno personnel.He testified again about Chelmno in the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and in the Chelmno trials in Germany (1962–1965) of the former SS men from the SS Special Detachment Kulmhof.
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