Career
After World World War II, he testified at trials of the Nazis, and received special recognition from the State of Israel. During the war, the group led by Jews who had escaped from nearby ghettos and from Sobibor. The group also included the postwar writer Dov Freiberg.
After the war, Joseph took part in locating the fleeing Nazi war criminals in Europe and served as a witness in the Nuremberg Trials.
Then he returned to Poland under the Soviet military control. Immediately upon arriving in Israel, he was drafted as a soldier to the Israeli army.
Over the years, Serchuk went to Europe several times to testify in the trials of Nazi war criminals. In the trial of Oberscharführer Hugo Raschendorfer, he was one of three prosecution witnesses (the other witnesses were Chaim Feder and Chaim Povroznik who survived Sobibor).
Serchuk saw the establishment and strengthening of the Israel Defense Forces and the State of Israel as retribution against the Nazis who slaughtered all of his extended family.
Serchuk died in 1993 in Tel Aviv, at the age of 74.
