Treblinka Survivor The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling
Noted in the Scotsman newspaper
24th June 2010
While Strathclyde Police searched for him and his sons worried for his safety, Sperling was lying atop iron girders, deep in the belly of the bridge. At some point, he threw himself from the bridge into the River Clyde and slipped under the surface.
When George Parsonage of the Glasgow Humane Society – which has patrolled the waters since 1790, retrieving the bodies of the stricken – found Hershl Sperling, he pulled up his sleeve and saw the inked numbers on his forearm and a series of distinctive letters on his bicep. Almost 20 years later, Parsonage recalled the grim retrieval and, with a tear in his eye, said he had always wondered "who?" and "why?