Why did Jankiel Wiernik plagiarize an earlier report?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:22 am
In 1942 the Polish Underground wrote a report describing mass executions with steam chambers at camp Treblinka. They included a map, see below left. A year later, Jankiel Wiernik is supposed to have escaped from Treblinka and drawn an almost identical map, below right. These images taken from Carlo Mattogno's The "Operation Reinhardt" Camps.
The Polish Underground version is from "The Liquidation of Jewish Warsaw". Dated November 15, 1942, but not reaching London until January 1943. It credits an unnamed witness or witnesses.
The Wiernik version can be found in A Year in Treblinka or A yor in Ṭreblinḳe. These were published in 1944. The English version claims the map was "drawn from memory by Yankel Wiernik", but obviously it was in fact plagiarized in almost every detail from the 1942 map.
The Polish Underground version is from "The Liquidation of Jewish Warsaw". Dated November 15, 1942, but not reaching London until January 1943. It credits an unnamed witness or witnesses.
The Wiernik version can be found in A Year in Treblinka or A yor in Ṭreblinḳe. These were published in 1944. The English version claims the map was "drawn from memory by Yankel Wiernik", but obviously it was in fact plagiarized in almost every detail from the 1942 map.