Moyshe Rekhtman

Moyshe Rekhtman (M / Ukraine, 1927), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Hidden Children> <Street Children>
• MEMOIRS : Here My Home Once Stood (2008)

Biography

Moyshe Rekhtman was born in 1927 to a Jewish family. During the war he was in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads. He escaped from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto. In May 1943 he was transferred to Tulchin labor camp. He escaped from that labor camp and returned to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until the end of the occupation in March 1944. After the war, he remained in Ukraine until March 29, 1985 when he emigrated to the United States.

Book : Here My Home Once Stood (2008)

• Moyshe Rekhtman, Here My Home Once Stood (San Rafael, CA : Fourth Generation Pub., 2008).

"As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy who had rarely ventured outside his small, remote village, Moyshe Rekhtman may seem an unlikely escape artist. But his iron will and quick wit allowed him to survive when all seemed lost. Staging escapes from death camps and avoiding Nazi pursuit through the frozen Ukrainian countryside-all while facing the loss of his family, famine, constant threat of capture, torture, and execution - would be a monumental task for the strongest of men. Despite his mild manners, emaciated body, and poor vision, he evaded the death squads in Nazi-occupied Ukraine for four years. Moyshe's Holocaust memoir is a remarkable example of human fortitude during a time when many welcomed an end to their suffering."--Publisher description.