Did Abraham Krzepicki exist?

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Consider the following about one of the top 5 most important Treblinka Eyewitnesses:

* He was an alleged Treblinka survivor who just happened to live in Rachel Auerbach's building and both worked at the same place: a plant that made "synthetic honey."

It would be one thing if this was the impetus that started Auerbach's career as a holocaust writer, but by reading her "In the Fields of Treblinka" (January 1946) it's clear she had for a long-time been a skilled writer of the sort perfect for this genre. And consider the synthetic honey. That's ersatz food. That was a bad stereotype of the Germans: they're so industrial that they eat ersatz food. So even that's it's own skilled putdown of the Germans and is likely made-up by her since it fits into her craft of "German hate writing."

*She wrote a write-up about Krzepicki in 1943 the year he allegedly died in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, but it was lost when she buried it underground.
Rediscovered in 1950 by Polish Construction Workers! And thereafter used as a major eyewitness source by Arad and Donat. He's probably in the top 5 Treblinka eyewitnesses.

*Only Auerbach saw him, talked to him, interviewed him, and from her writing it's clear she's a liar.

I might be wrong, but I think she was the only one he had contact with. The first Treblinka survivor happens to live in Auerbach's building and only she got to speak to him!

Saying you wrote something during the war but it got lost, only to be found later, is a great way to pred-ate something that you really wrote after the war. And having him die during the war helps with that too.

So did he exist? Or was he some dude in her building who died and she then created him as a Treblinka escapee? Or did he exist at all?

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It gets even more fishy: Emanuel Ringelblum, the head of the Warsaw Ghetto Underground archives entrusted Rachel Auerbach to record Krzepicki's testimony. And so she did: she wrote a novel.

Krzepicki's big testimony is in novel form.

Can you imagine a murder case before a judge, and the lawyer submits a novel as evidence? It's just as ludicrous here.

And yes, I think he likely never existed. He escapes from Treblinka after seeing heinous things, and he's near the Soviet border. Where does he go? Back to Warsaw!

The novel is clearly a fraud, whether it's him or Auerbach. I could seriously list 20 reasons why if I had the energy.

Krzepicki is a major source for Yitzhak Arad's history book on Treblinka.