Kalman Taigman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kalman Taigman

Holocaust survivor

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Jul-2012

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Kalman Taigman also Teigman Hebrew: ???? ??????? (c.?24 December 1923 – c.?27 July 2012) was an Israeli citizen born in Warsaw, Poland, who testified at the 1961 Eichmann Trial held in Jerusalem as one of the remaining few Jewish inmates of the Sonderkommando who escaped from the Treblinka extermination camp during the prisoner uprising of 1943.Taigman did not go back to Poland for over 60 years, he returned to Treblinka for the first time in 2010 (two years before his death), asked by the film director Tzipi Beider to take part in a documentary, along with another Treblinka survivor, and a friend of his, Samuel Willenberg.
Taigman's second wife of 26 years, Lea Lipshitz, who went along with them, said that Kalman was happy to be in Poland once more and much to her surprise spoke Polish again with ease.