Krzepicki, Jakub (Abraham)

Jakub (Abraham) Krzepicki was a former inmate of the Treblinka II Camp. He was deported to Treblinka on 25 August 1942, but managed to escape just 18 days later. Two texts are attributed to him: a shorter one in Polish, without an author’s name, featuring at least two distinct handwritings, hence probably two authors. Another text is in Yiddish, but it was written by Rachel Auerbach, presumably in close cooperation with Krzepicki, and shows clear signs of Auerbach’s writing style. Therefore, the authenticity of the stories told is questionable (see Olson 2026b). Krzepicki died during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. Here are the oddities in his account:

• He consistently speaks only of “the gas chamber” or “the bath hall”, in the singular, when there supposedly were three of them at the time he was there.
• He describes the facility he inspected in detail, but mentions no engine room with a “gas generator”, nor any ducts or openings allowing the introduction of gas.
• He mentions pipes on top of the roof, as if describing water pipes feeding the showerheads in the room’s ceiling, which he mentioned, whereas ducts feeding in exhaust gas would have come through wall openings, not first led from the engine room outside onto the roof, then back inside again through the roof.
• He claims to have worked on constructing a crematorium building at Treblinka, although no such facility was ever conceived, let alone built.

(For details, see Mattogno 2021e, pp. 122-124; https://zapisyterroru.pl/.)