| LC control no. | no 00036767 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Reder, Rudolf, 1881-1968 |
| Variant(s) | Reder, Rudolf, b. 1881 Robak, Roman, 1881-1968 |
| Located | Lʹviv (Ukraine) Israel Toronto (Ont.) |
| Birth date | 1881-04-04 |
| Death date | 1968 |
| Place of birth | Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland) |
| Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Affiliation | Belzec (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen Authors |
| Found in | Bełżec, 1999: t.p. (Rudolf Reder) p. 13 (b. Apr. 4, 1881 in Lwów) OCLC, 23 May 2000 (hdg.: Reder, Rudolf, 1881- ) O'Neil, Robin. Jewish genocide in Galicia, 2016: pages 280, etc. (born in Dębica; lived in Lwów where he ran a soap factory; was deported to Belzec in 1942 and lost his wife and children; escaped with the aid of a former employee, a Ukrainian woman. In 1949 he changed his name to Roman Robak and in 1950, along with his second wife, moved to Israel, then Canada.) Wikipedia, viewed March 21, 2019 Rudolf Reder (was one of only two Holocaust survivors of the Belzec extermination camp to testify after the war. He submitted a deposition to the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in January 1946 in Krakow. He was transported to Belzec on August 11, 1942 from the Lwow ghetto and was assigned to the Sonderkommando. He had to maintain engines for the gas chambers among other things. At the end of November 1942, he escaped with the help of a former employee and a Polish woman, Joanna Borkowska whom he married after the war. In 1946 he published his testimony in Polish in a book entitled Bełżec. In 1950 he lived briefly in Israel, then emigrated to Canada in 1953 and died in Toronto in 1968.) |
| Associated language | pol |
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