Franciszek Ząbecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franciszek Ząbecki

Polish resistance fighter

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1907

Place of Birth: Łyszkowice, Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1987

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lieutenant Franciszek Zabecki /fra?'t??i??k z?m'b?t?sk?i/(8 October 1907 – 11 April 1987) was a station master at the village of Treblinka.
During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Zabecki worked as a dispatcher for the Deutsche Reichsbahn; he also became a secret soldier in the underground Armia Krajowa (AK), collecting classified data and reporting to the Polish resistance on the Holocaust transports that went to Treblinka extermination camp.
Over 800,000 Jews were murdered there in the course of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in Poland.
Zabecki himself estimated that number to be 1,200,000 people.After the war, Zabecki testified at the trials of German war criminals, including SS officer Kurt Franz, and the commandant of Treblinka extermination camp, Franz Stangl.
His incriminating evidence against them included original German waybills produced by the Reichsbahn, which proved that the "Güterwagen" boxcars crammed with prisoners on the way to Treblinka extermination camp, were returning empty.
Zabecki secretly stole a batch of waybills in 1944 from the control house to serve as physical proof of the ongoing extermination program.
From July 1942 until the end of war, Zabecki regularly delivered his reports about the Holocaust trains to the Polish government-in-exile.