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In the station was a train full of , some dead, some still alive Stangl reorganised the camp, and the transports of and Radom Jews began to arrive again on 3 September Although he was directly responsible for the camp's operations, according to his own testimony Stangl limited his contact with Jewish prisoners as much as possible. He claimed that he rarely interfered with the cruel acts perpetrated by his subordinate officers at the camp. According to postwar testimonies, when transports were temporarily halted, then-deputy commandant wrote lyrics to a song meant to celebrate the Treblinka . In reality, prisoner Walter Hirsch wrote them for him. The melody came from something Franz remembered from Buchenwald. The music was upbeat, in the key of D major. The song was taught to Jews assigned to work in the . A musical ensemble was formed, under duress, by , a popular Jewish prewar composer from Warsaw. He arranged the theme to the Treblinka song for the piece prisoner orchestra which he conducted. Gold arrived in Treblinka in and played music in the SS mess hall at the Wohnlager on German orders. He died during the uprising. The subsequent clean-up of the Treblinka II perimeter was completed by prisoners of nearby Treblinka I in the following months. Kurt Franz maintained a photo album against orders never to take photographs inside Treblinka. Franz was careful not to photograph the gas chambers. In late July , Soviet forces began to approach from the east. Many families were killed. Until mid human ashes up to 20 carts every day had been regularly strewn by the remaining prisoners along the road for 2 kilometres 1. The new Soviet-installed government did not preserve evidence of the camp. The scene was not legally protected at the conclusion of World War II. Stalinist officials allocated no funding for the design competition nor for the memorial, and the committee disbanded in ; by then many survivors had left the country. A work crew with no archaeological experience was sent in to landscape the grounds. In , after the end of Stalinism in Poland , the Warsaw provincial council declared Treblinka to be a place of martyrology. The sculpture represents the trend toward large avant-garde forms introduced in the s throughout Europe, with a granite tower cracked down the middle and capped by a mushroom-like block carved with abstract reliefs and Jewish symbols. The camp custodian's house built nearby in [s] was turned into an exhibition space following the collapse of communism in Poland in and the retirement of the custodian; it opened in There are many estimates of the total number of people killed at Treblinka; most scholarly estimates range from , to ,, [7] [8] meaning that more Jews died at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz. The first estimate of the number of people killed at Treblinka came from , a Soviet war reporter who visited Treblinka in July as the Soviet forces marched westward across Poland. He published an article called "The Hell Called Treblinka", which appeared in the November issue of Znamya , a monthly Russian literary magazine. He may not have been aware that the short station platform at Treblinka II greatly reduced the number of wagons that could be unloaded at one time, [] and may have been adhering to the Soviet trend of exaggerating Nazi crimes for propaganda purposes. Helmut Krausnick , director of the Institute of Contemporary History. Wolfgang Scheffler. He also clandestinely photographed the burning Treblinka II perimeter during the uprising in August A further source of information became available in Discovered among declassified documents in Britain, it shows that by the official count of the German Transport Authority , Jews were sent to Treblinka in Otto Horn corpse detail was acquitted. After his extradition from to West Stangl was tried for the deaths of around , people. He admitted to the killings but argued: "My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty. The theft of cash and valuables, collected from the victims of gassing, was conducted by the higher-ranking SS men on an enormous scale. It was a common practice among the concentration camps' top echelon everywhere; two Majdanek concentration camp commandants, Koch and Florstedt , were tried and executed by the SS for the same offence in April The overall amount of material gain by is unknown except for the period between 22 August and 21 September , when there were wagons of goods sent and recorded. The amount of loot Globocnik stole is unknown; Suchomel claimed in court to have filled a box with one million Reichsmarks for him. Neither the Jewish religious leaders in Poland nor the authorities allowed archaeological excavations at the camp out of respect for the dead. Approval for a limited archaeological study was issued for the first time in to a British team from Staffordshire University using non-invasive technology and Lidar remote sensing. The soil resistance was analysed at the site with ground-penetrating radar. The archaeological team performing the search discovered three new mass graves. The remains were reinterred out of respect for the victims. At the second dig the findings included yellow tiles stamped with a pierced mullet star resembling a , and building foundations with a wall. In his memoir describing his stay in the camp, survivor says that the floor in the gas chambers which he helped build was made of similar tiles. Treblinka museum receives most visitors per day during the annual educational programme which brings young people from around the world to Poland, to explore the remnants of . The visitors whose primary destination is the march at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, visit Treblinka in the preceding days. In , Israeli students attended the ceremony led by Eli Shaish from the Ministry of Education. In , 1, foreign students visited. Water pipes that conducted the poisonous gas to the shower heads ran along the ceiling creating the illusion of a shower as in the simulated shower rooms. 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The whole process of killing the people, starting from thier sic arrival at the camp railroad till removing the corpses from the gas chambers, lasted about 2 hours. Treblinka was known among the Nazis as an example of good organization of a death camp. It was a real extermination centre. There is a large memorial stone at the entrance to the cobblestone path up to the virtual cemetery. On the stone is a map showing the gravel pit in the center with the to the left and the extermination camp to the right. On a real map, the gravel pit and labor camp are located to the south of the extermination camp. Two stones placed at an angle to form a gate into the former camp, and in the foreground 6 memorial stones, set close together, which are located just beyond the stone with the map. Each of the six stones is inscribed with a different language including Hebrew, English and Polish. The inscription says that the camp was in operation from July to August and that during that time , Jews were killed there. It also mentions the Aug. The pamphlet says that "After the riot the camp was being slowly liquidated and in November of it was not existing already. The Treblinka camp was completely dismantled and destroyed when it was liquidated. Among the few survivors were those who escaped during the uprising and joined the partisans in the forests. Looking toward the east, on the left side of the cobblestone path as you enter, there is a line of stone markers which delineate the original northern border of the camp. It is so quiet here that the only sound is your own footsteps on the cobblestone path. According to Jewish historian Martin Gilbert, the Treblinka camp was one of the three Operation Reinhard camps organized by Odilo Globocnik in , after the assassination of in Prague, to carry out the Nazi plan for systematic extermination of the Jews. Reinhard Heydrich was the man who led the conference on January 20, at Wannsee , a suburb of , where the "" for Europe's 11 million Jews was planned. The protocols from the conference used the expression "transportation to the East" as a euphemism to mean the genocidal killing of all the European Jews. The other two Operation Reinhard camps, Sobibor and Belzec , were also located on the eastern border of Poland, to the south of Treblinka. There were no "selections" made at the Operation Reinhard camps, nor at Chelmno. All three Operation Reinhard camps were located on major railroad lines from Poland into Russia. At this point in the war, the Nazis had penetrated deep inside the Soviet Union, after first taking the lands in eastern Poland which had been conquered by the Russians in Sept. Treblinka was located in the area of Poland which had been occupied by the Soviet Union from Sept. The railroad tracks go in a straight line to Malkinia Junction from Warsaw and then branch off to Treblinka. In new railroad tracks were built by the Nazis, extending from the village of Treblinka into the extermination camp. At the camp, a storehouse was "disguised as a train station," according to the pamphlet available at the memorial site. After you pass through the two stones set at an angle to form an entrance gate into the area where the Treblinka camp once stood, you come upon an immense stone sculpture designed to represent the railroad ties on which the tracks were laid on the spur line that the Germans built from Treblinka into the camp. The tracks begin in the wooded area outside the camp boundary line and then make a sharp turn to the left eastward into the camp. Nearby is the end of the railroad spur line with a stone platform to the left. When the camp was in operation, there was a real train platform in this spot and behind it the storehouse, disguised as a train depot, which contained the clothing and other items which the victims had brought with them to the camp. Here lies a line of stones which represent the 10 different countries, including Greece , Czechoslovakia, Poland , Bulgaria and others, from which the Jews were transported by train to be exterminated here in this remote, God-forsaken spot in the forest. Just south of the recreated stone train platform, and in front of you as you are looking southward into the camp with the platform on the left, is the location of the "burial pits for those who died during transportation," according to the camp pamphlet. East of the burial pits, according to the pamphlet, was an "execution site disguised as a hospital. A short distance farther up the slope to the east of the gas chambers was located the " pyres" according to a map in the camp pamphlet. None of the three Operation Reinhard extermination camps, all of which were located on the Polish border, had a crematorium for burning the bodies of the dead. Of the other five extermination camps which were in operation during the same period Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau , only Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek, which also functioned as forced labor camps, had crematoriums. Inside the camp lie stones commemorating the Jewish victims from Poland and Czechoslovakia. There are a total of 10 such stones with names of countries on them. According to Martin Gilbert in his book Holocaust Journey , there were 13, Jews deported here from the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Thrace, which were then occupied by Bulgaria, so their stone says "Bulgaria. There is another stone for the 43, Greek Jews who were brought here. At the base of the stones, visitors have placed votive candles in metal cans, fresh cut flowers and tiny flags of Israel. A large granite memorial stone, designed to resemble a Jewish tombstone, which according to the camp pamphlet was built between and It is located approximately on the spot where the gas chambers stood, according to the tour guide. A Menorah sits at the top of the tombstone. The large crack down the middle of the stone is part of the design. Surrounding the huge tombstone are some of the 1, small stones which represent the villages and towns from whence came the , victims of this Nazi barbarity. Located on a knoll at the top of a gentle slope on the site of the former Treblinka extermination camp is a large circular area with 1, stones of various sizes and colors set into concrete, which represent a symbolic cemetery. According to a pamphlet which I purchased at the camp reception center, "The great monument in Treblinka is a homage of the Polish people to those ashes lie under the concrete plates of the symbolic cemetery. It is one of the most tragic monuments of martyrdom in Poland. My tour guide confirmed that the ashes of the , people who died here were placed in this area and are now hidden underneath the symbolic cemetery and by the grass and tiny flowers which cover the spot. The map in the camp pamphlet does not specify the exact spot where the ashes were buried. The tour guide pointed out one of the 1, symbolic stones which represents the city of in central Poland, where 42 Jews were killed by a mob of Polish citizens in a on July 4, , long after the Nazi occupation had ended. Today Kielce is a modern industrial city with a population of ,, located between Warsaw and Krakow. In , the Jewish population was around 25,, although until the early s, Jews were barred from living in the city. The pogrom was the last in Poland; after that most of the , Polish Holocaust survivors fled the country. There is also a stone for , the only person to have an individual stone in the symbolic cemetery. Korczak was a pseudonym for Dr. Henryk Goldzmit. He was a teacher and a social worker who ran an orphanage in Warsaw. He also did a weekly radio show for children, and wrote a series of children's books in which the central character was a boy king named King Matt. In July , he turned down the opportunity to escape from the ghetto , and instead accompanied his orphans to Treblinka where he was murdered along with them. According to the U. Holocaust Museum, Korczak marched with his orphans to the with one child carrying the flag of King Matt with the Zionist flag on the other side of it. Another stone represents the cremation pit where, according to the camp pamphlet, bodies were burned on "grates. The map in the camp pamphlet shows that there were actually two cremation pyres, located just east of the 10 new gas chambers. The bodies which had been previously buried were dug up and cremated on the orders of , after he visited the camp in , according to Martin Gilbert. The largest stone at the symbolic cemetery is the one for Warsaw , from where the largest number of Jews were transported to Treblinka. In the Jewish population of Warsaw and the surrounding area, about , people, were first crowded into a walled ghetto, then later sent to Treblinka and other camps. According to my tour guide, there are today around 4, Jews living in Warsaw, but only of them go to the regularly. The first picture below shows the large stone dedicated to the victims from Warszawa, the Polish name for the city that Americans know as Warsaw. Note the two flags of Israel and the small metal cans holding votive candles, left by recent visitors. This stone is the first one you see, right in front of the large memorial tombstone. The second picture shows more stones under a majestic tree in the back portion of the symbolic cemetery, behind the simulated cremation pit. According to the map in the camp pamphlet, the area behind the symbolic cremation pit was where the bodies were buried before they were dug up and cremated. The third picture is a close-up of the stones under the tree. As you can see, very few of the stones have names of the towns they represent. According to my tour guide, many relatives of those who died here come to the symbolic cemetery and are disappointed to find that their village is not named on any of the stones. In January , British forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls uncovered mass graves in the Treblinka camp that were previously hidden underground. Using special, ground-penetrating radar equipment and other advanced technology so as not to cause complications with Jewish law which forbids disturbing burial sites, Colls and her team managed to uncover graves at the camp where it is widely held that the Nazi's murdered more than , people, the vast majority Jews. Since the liberation of the Treblinka area by the Allies, Holocaust deniers have harped on the fact that no evidence of the exterminations supposedly carried out at the camp have been found. This new evidence now will help formally disprove those who still believe that the Treblinka camp was nothing more than a transit camp that moved Jews from Poland to the other various concentration camps across Europe. Only 67 people survived Treblinka. As of March , only two remain alive. The research and findings from this study were presented as part of the documentary, 'The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust. Treblinka extermination camp - Wikipedia

According to a pamphlet which I purchased at the camp tourist center, "The extermination camp in Treblinka was built in the middle of near the already existing labour camp. It was surrounded by fence and rows of barbed wire along which there were watchtowers with machine guns every ten metres. The main part of the camp constituted sic two buildings in which there were 13 gas chambers altogether. Two thousand people could be put to death at a time in them. Death by suffocation with fumes came after 10 - 15 minutes. First the bodies of the victims were buried, later were cremated on big grates out of doors. The ashes were mixed witch sic sand and buried in one spot. According to Martin Gilbert in his book, Holocaust Journey , the gas chambers at Treblinka utilized carbon monoxide from diesel engines. Many writers say that these diesel engines were obtained from captured Russian submarines, but according to the Nizkor Project , they were large BHP engines from captured Soviet T tanks. At the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi war criminals, the American government charged that the Jews were murdered at Treblinka in "steam chambers," not gas chambers. The pamphlet continues with this information: "Killing took place with great speed. The whole process of killing the people, starting from thier sic arrival at the camp railroad till removing the corpses from the gas chambers, lasted about 2 hours. Treblinka was known among the Nazis as an example of good organization of a death camp. It was a real extermination centre. There is a large memorial stone at the entrance to the cobblestone path up to the virtual cemetery. On the stone is a map showing the gravel pit in the center with the labor camp to the left and the extermination camp to the right. On a real map, the gravel pit and labor camp are located to the south of the extermination camp. Two stones placed at an angle to form a gate into the former camp, and in the foreground 6 memorial stones, set close together, which are located just beyond the stone with the map. Each of the six stones is inscribed with a different language including Hebrew, English and Polish. The inscription says that the camp was in operation from July to August and that during that time , Jews were killed there. It also mentions the Aug. The pamphlet says that "After the riot the camp was being slowly liquidated and in November of it was not existing already. The Treblinka camp was completely dismantled and destroyed when it was liquidated. Among the few survivors were those who escaped during the uprising and joined the partisans in the forests. Looking toward the east, on the left side of the cobblestone path as you enter, there is a line of stone markers which delineate the original northern border of the camp. It is so quiet here that the only sound is your own footsteps on the cobblestone path. According to Jewish historian Martin Gilbert, the Treblinka camp was one of the three Operation Reinhard camps organized by Odilo Globocnik in , after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, to carry out the Nazi plan for systematic extermination of the Jews. Reinhard Heydrich was the man who led the conference on January 20, at Wannsee , a suburb of Berlin, where the "Final Solution" for Europe's 11 million Jews was planned. The protocols from the conference used the expression "transportation to the East" as a euphemism to mean the genocidal killing of all the European Jews. The other two Operation Reinhard camps, Sobibor and Belzec , were also located on the eastern border of Poland, to the south of Treblinka. There were no "selections" made at the Operation Reinhard camps, nor at Chelmno. All three Operation Reinhard camps were located on major railroad lines from Poland into Russia. At this point in the war, the Nazis had penetrated deep inside the Soviet Union, after first taking the lands in eastern Poland which had been conquered by the Russians in Sept. Treblinka was located in the area of Poland which had been occupied by the Soviet Union from Sept. The railroad tracks go in a straight line to Malkinia Junction from Warsaw and then branch off to Treblinka. In new railroad tracks were built by the Nazis, extending from the village of Treblinka into the extermination camp. At the camp, a storehouse was "disguised as a train station," according to the pamphlet available at the memorial site. After you pass through the two stones set at an angle to form an entrance gate into the area where the Treblinka camp once stood, you come upon an immense stone sculpture designed to represent the railroad ties on which the tracks were laid on the spur line that the Germans built from Treblinka into the camp. The tracks begin in the wooded area outside the camp boundary line and then make a sharp turn to the left eastward into the camp. Nearby is the end of the railroad spur line with a stone platform to the left. When the camp was in operation, there was a real train platform in this spot and behind it the storehouse, disguised as a train depot, which contained the clothing and other items which the victims had brought with them to the camp. Here lies a line of stones which represent the 10 different countries, including Greece , Czechoslovakia, Poland , Bulgaria and others, from which the Jews were transported by train to be exterminated here in this remote, God-forsaken spot in the forest. Just south of the recreated stone train platform, and in front of you as you are looking southward into the camp with the platform on the left, is the location of the "burial pits for those who died during transportation," according to the camp pamphlet. East of the burial pits, according to the pamphlet, was an "execution site disguised as a hospital. A short distance farther up the slope to the east of the gas chambers was located the "cremation pyres" according to a map in the camp pamphlet. None of the three Operation Reinhard extermination camps, all of which were located on the Polish border, had a crematorium for burning the bodies of the dead. Of the other five extermination camps which were in operation during the same period Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau , only Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek, which also functioned as forced labor camps, had crematoriums. Inside the camp lie stones commemorating the Jewish victims from Poland and Czechoslovakia. There are a total of 10 such stones with names of countries on them. According to Martin Gilbert in his book Holocaust Journey , there were 13, Jews deported here from the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Thrace, which were then occupied by Bulgaria, so their stone says "Bulgaria. There is another stone for the 43, Greek Jews who were brought here. At the base of the stones, visitors have placed votive candles in metal cans, fresh cut flowers and tiny flags of Israel. A large granite memorial stone, designed to resemble a Jewish tombstone, which according to the camp pamphlet was built between and It is located approximately on the spot where the gas chambers stood, according to the tour guide. A Menorah sits at the top of the tombstone. The large crack down the middle of the stone is part of the design. Surrounding the huge tombstone are some of the 1, small stones which represent the villages and towns from whence came the , victims of this Nazi barbarity. Located on a knoll at the top of a gentle slope on the site of the former Treblinka extermination camp is a large circular area with 1, stones of various sizes and colors set into concrete, which represent a symbolic cemetery. According to a pamphlet which I purchased at the camp reception center, "The great monument in Treblinka is a homage of the Polish people to those ashes lie under the concrete plates of the symbolic cemetery. It is one of the most tragic monuments of martyrdom in Poland. My tour guide confirmed that the ashes of the , people who died here were placed in this area and are now hidden underneath the symbolic cemetery and by the grass and tiny flowers which cover the spot. The map in the camp pamphlet does not specify the exact spot where the ashes were buried. The tour guide pointed out one of the 1, symbolic stones which represents the city of Kielce in central Poland, where 42 Jews were killed by a mob of Polish citizens in a pogrom on July 4, , long after the Nazi occupation had ended. Today Kielce is a modern industrial city with a population of ,, located between Warsaw and Krakow. In , the Jewish population was around 25,, although until the early s, Jews were barred from living in the city. The pogrom was the last in Poland; after that most of the , Polish Holocaust survivors fled the country. There is also a stone for Janusz Korczak , the only person to have an individual stone in the symbolic cemetery. Korczak was a pseudonym for Dr. Henryk Goldzmit. He was a teacher and a social worker who ran an orphanage in Warsaw. He also did a weekly radio show for children, and wrote a series of children's books in which the central character was a boy king named King Matt. In July , he turned down the opportunity to escape from the ghetto , and instead accompanied his orphans to Treblinka where he was murdered along with them. According to the U. Holocaust Museum, Korczak marched with his orphans to the Umschlagplatz with one child carrying the flag of King Matt with the Zionist flag on the other side of it. Another stone represents the cremation pit where, according to the camp pamphlet, bodies were burned on "grates. The map in the camp pamphlet shows that there were actually two cremation pyres, located just east of the 10 new gas chambers. The bodies which had been previously buried were dug up and cremated on the orders of Heinrich Himmler , after he visited the camp in , according to Martin Gilbert. The largest stone at the symbolic cemetery is the one for Warsaw , from where the largest number of Jews were transported to Treblinka. In the Jewish population of Warsaw and the surrounding area, about , people, were first crowded into a walled ghetto, then later sent to Treblinka and other camps. According to my tour guide, there are today around 4, Jews living in Warsaw, but only of them go to the Synagogue regularly. The first picture below shows the large stone dedicated to the victims from Warszawa, the Polish name for the city that Americans know as Warsaw. Note the two flags of Israel and the small metal cans holding votive candles, left by recent visitors. This stone is the first one you see, right in front of the large memorial tombstone. The second picture shows more stones under a majestic tree in the back portion of the symbolic cemetery, behind the simulated cremation pit. According to the map in the camp pamphlet, the area behind the symbolic cremation pit was where the bodies were buried before they were dug up and cremated. The third picture is a close-up of the stones under the tree. After his extradition from Brazil to West Germany Stangl was tried for the deaths of around , people. He admitted to the killings but argued: "My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty. The theft of cash and valuables, collected from the victims of gassing, was conducted by the higher-ranking SS men on an enormous scale. It was a common practice among the concentration camps' top echelon everywhere; two Majdanek concentration camp commandants, Koch and Florstedt , were tried and executed by the SS for the same offence in April The overall amount of material gain by Nazi Germany is unknown except for the period between 22 August and 21 September , when there were wagons of goods sent and recorded. The amount of loot Globocnik stole is unknown; Suchomel claimed in court to have filled a box with one million Reichsmarks for him. Neither the Jewish religious leaders in Poland nor the authorities allowed archaeological excavations at the camp out of respect for the dead. Approval for a limited archaeological study was issued for the first time in to a British team from Staffordshire University using non-invasive technology and Lidar remote sensing. The soil resistance was analysed at the site with ground-penetrating radar. The archaeological team performing the search discovered three new mass graves. The remains were reinterred out of respect for the victims. At the second dig the findings included yellow tiles stamped with a pierced mullet star resembling a Star of David , and building foundations with a wall. In his memoir describing his stay in the camp, survivor Jankiel Wiernik says that the floor in the gas chambers which he helped build was made of similar tiles. Treblinka museum receives most visitors per day during the annual March of the Living educational programme which brings young people from around the world to Poland, to explore the remnants of the Holocaust. The visitors whose primary destination is the march at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, visit Treblinka in the preceding days. In , Israeli students attended the ceremony led by Eli Shaish from the Ministry of Education. In , 1, foreign students visited. Water pipes that conducted the poisonous gas to the shower heads ran along the ceiling creating the illusion of a shower as in the simulated shower rooms. In Sobibor and Treblinka they applied the same system to produce carbon monoxide using heavy gasoline engines. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Treblinka disambiguation. Concrete blocks marking the path of the former railway spur at Treblinka. Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May Early policies. Allied response. Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations. Holocaust survivors Deportations of French Jews to death camps. Functionalism versus intentionalism. Days of remembrance Memorials and museums Righteous Among the Nations. 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Treblinka I was a forced-labor camp where prisoners were made to manufacture gravel for the Nazi war effort. A little more than a mile 2 kilometers away was Treblinka II, a horrendously efficient death camp. Jews were sent to Treblinka II on trains, told they were simply going to a transit camp before being sent on to a new life in eastern Europe. The deception was elaborate: Nazis erected a fake train station in the remote spot, complete with false ticket-counter and clock. Gold, a Jewish violinist from Warsaw, was kept alive at Treblinka both to entertain the Nazi guards and to run the orchestra. He died at the camp in The Jewish deportees were split into two groups, one of men and the other of women and children, and ordered to undress for "delousing. Within about 20 minutes, some 5, people inside would be killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. Corpses were initially buried in mass graves, but later in and , Jewish slave laborers were forced to reopen the graves and cremate the bodies on enormous pyres. But because the Nazis razed Treblinka's death camp in , little physical evidence of this genocide remained. What was known about Treblinka came from Nazi confessions and the eyewitness descriptions of very few survivors, most of whom were never allowed near the gas chambers. But as an archaeologist, Colls knew that "the landscape could never be sanitized in that way," she said. She began assessing Treblinka as an archaeological site in Since that time, Colls has also led a lidar survey of the wooded site. Lidar is a method that uses lasers to measure the distance between the ground and the airplane-borne instrument. By scanning the ground with lidar, archaeologists can detect depressions and mounds that might indicate manmade structures. In total Jews from the Generalgouvernement area were killed in Treblinka. In March and April , approximately 11 Jews from Macedonia and Thrace, areas newly attached to Bulgaria, were deported to Treblinka, while at the end of March 2nd, Jews also came from Thessaloniki. Over 2 Roma also died here. , commander of the Treblinka extermination camp from - From April on, the camp's commander was Kurt Franz , Stangl's erstwhile deputy. The staff consisted of 20 to 30 Germans, who held leading functions, and approximately Ukrainians, who served as guards. Most of them were Soviet prisoners of war, trained in Trawniki. In addition, over Jewish prisoners were used for slave labour, which included keeping the gas chambers working and burying the bodies of the victims. In , a resistance group emerged among the prisoners used for slave labour, joined by many of the kapos and leaders of working groups. Its attempt to create a rebellion failed, however. The leadership of the resistance movement was taken over in the end by a former officer in the Czechoslovak army, Zelo Bloch. The uprising, planned from April , began on the 2nd of August The prisoners took weapons and grenades out of a storeroom for which they had made a key. They managed to set fire to the building in which the Germans and Ukrainians lived, and gradually all the buildings in the camp caught fire. The prisoners tried to climb over the barbed fortifications, but many of them were shot from the watch towers. Others managed to flee into the marshy woods, but of the seven hundred prisoners, only around 70 escaped. The rest of the prisoners, who did not manage to escape, were forced to destroy and obliterate all evidence of the activities that had gone on in the camp. Afterwards they too were shot, and a farm was built on the site of the extermination camp. Between and a memorial was constructed on the site of the camp, in the form of a cemetery. Hundreds of stone tombs bear the names of the countries and districts from which the victims came. The symbolic cemetery on the site of the former extermination camp, Photo: M. After the war, Franz Stangl fled to Brazil, from whence he was extradited back to Germany. He stood on trial between the 13th of March and the 22nd of December , and received a life sentence. Asked How many people could be killed in Treblinka in a day? When the work lasted for about fourteen hours, 12 to 15 people were annihilated. There were many days that the work lasted from the early morning until the evening I have done nothing to anybody that was not my duty. Closest to the SS quarters were separate barracks for the Polish and Ukrainian women who served, cleaned, and worked in the kitchen. The next section of Treblinka II Camp 2, also called the lower camp or Auffanglager , was the receiving area where the railway unloading ramp extended from the Treblinka line into the camp. The area where the women and children were shorn of their hair was on the other side of the path from the men. All buildings in the lower camp, including the barber barracks, contained the piled up clothing and belongings of the prisoners. It was flanked by a fake infirmary called "Lazaret", with the Red Cross sign on it. It was a small barracks surrounded by barbed wire, where the sick, old, wounded and "difficult" prisoners were taken. The third section of Treblinka II Camp 3, also called the upper camp was the main killing zone, with gas chambers at its centre. This mound was elongated in shape, similar to a retaining wall, and can be seen in a sketch produced during the trial of Treblinka II commandant Franz Stangl. On the other sides, the zone was camouflaged from new arrivals like the rest of the camp, using tree branches woven into barbed wire fences by the Tarnungskommando the work detail led out to collect them. The prisoners who operated the upper camp lived in separate barracks behind the gas chambers. Unlike in which prisoners were used as forced labour, extermination camps such as Treblinka had only one function: to kill those sent there. To prevent incoming victims from realising its nature, Treblinka II was disguised as a transit camp for deportations further east, complete with made-up train schedules, a fake train-station clock with hands painted on it, names of destinations, [82] a fake ticket window, and the sign "Ober Majdan", [83] a code word for Treblinka commonly used to deceive prisoners arriving from Western Europe. Majdan was a prewar landed estate 5 kilometres 3. The mass deportation of Jews from the began on 22 July with the first shipment of 6, people. The gas chambers started operation the following morning. No other trains were allowed to stop at the Treblinka station. The rail traffic on Polish railway lines was extremely dense. An average of German military trains were passing through every 24 hours on top of internal traffic already in An earlier signboard with directions was removed because it was clearly insufficient. Treblinka received transports of almost 20, foreign Jews between October and March , including 8, from the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia via Theresienstadt , and over 11, from Bulgarian-occupied Thrace , Macedonia , and Pirot following an agreement with the Nazi-allied Bulgarian government. The provisions included such items as smoked mutton, speciality breads, wine, cheese, fruit, tea, coffee, and sweets. Auschwitz-Birkenau was used to kill Jews from almost every other country in Europe. All were ordered to tie their shoes together and strip. Some kept their own towels. Women had their hair cut off; therefore, it took longer to prepare them for the gas chambers than men. Most of those killed at Treblinka were Jews, but about 2, Romani people also died there. Like the Jews, the Romani were first rounded up and sent to the ghettos. At a conference on 30 January it was decided that all 30, Romani living in Germany proper were to be deported to former Polish territory. As with the Jews, most Romani who went to Treblinka died in the gas chambers, although some were shot. There were no known Romani escapees or survivors from Treblinka. After undressing, the newly arrived Jews were beaten with whips to drive them towards the gas chambers; hesitant men were treated particularly brutally. During this time, the women and children could hear the sounds of suffering from inside the chambers, and they became aware of what awaited them, which caused panic, distress, and even involuntary defecation. Many survivors of the Treblinka camp testified that an officer known as ' Ivan the Terrible ' was responsible for operating the gas chambers in and While Jews were awaiting their fate outside the gas chambers, Ivan the Terrible allegedly tortured, beat, and killed many of them. Survivors witnessed Ivan beat victims' heads open with a pipe, cut victims with a sword or a bayonet, cut off noses and ears, and gouge out eyes. The gas chambers were entirely closed off by a tall wooden fence. They had double walls insulated by earth packed down in between. The interior walls and ceilings were lined with roofing paper. The floors were covered with tin-plated sheet metal, the same material used for the roof. Solid wooden doors were insulated with rubber and bolted from the outside by heavy cross-bars. According to Stangl, a train transport of about 3, people could be "processed" in three hours. In a hour workday, 12, to 15, people were killed. After about 20 minutes the bodies were removed by dozens of , placed onto carts and wheeled away. Between August and September , a large new building with a concrete foundation was built from bricks and mortar under the guidance of Action T4 expert . The killing process at Treblinka differed significantly from the method used at Auschwitz and Majdanek, where the poison gas hydrogen cyanide was used. Dead mothers embraced the bodies of their children. The Germans became aware of the political danger associated with the mass burial of corpses in April , when they discovered the graves of Polish victims of the Katyn massacre carried out by the Soviets near Smolensk. The bodies of the 10, Polish officers executed by the NKVD were well preserved despite their long burial. The began shortly after Himmler's visit to the camp in late February or early March To incinerate bodies, there were large cremation pits constructed at Camp 3 within Treblinka II. The bodies were placed on rails over wood, splashed with petrol, and burned. It was a harrowing sight, according to Jankiel Wiernik, with the bellies of pregnant women exploding from boiling amniotic fluid. The pyres operated 24 hours a day. Once the system had been perfected, 10,—12, bodies at a time could be incinerated. It is constructed from melted basalt and has a concrete foundation. It is a symbolic grave, [] as the Nazis spread the actual human ashes, mixed with sand, over an area of 2. The guards were mainly ethnic German from the east and Ukrainians, [] [] with some Russians, Tatars , Moldovans, Latvians, and Central Asians , all of whom had served in the . The work at Treblinka was carried out under threat of death by Jewish prisoners organised into specialised work details. At the Camp 2 Auffanglager receiving area each squad had a different coloured triangle. The blue unit Kommando Blau managed the rail ramp and unlocked the freight wagons. They met the new arrivals, carried out people who had died en route, removed bundles, and cleaned the wagon floors. The red unit Kommando Rot , which was the largest squad, unpacked and sorted the belongings of victims after they had been "processed". The Goldjuden unit "gold Jews" collected and counted banknotes and evaluated the gold and jewellery. A different group of about men, called the Totenjuden "Jews for the dead" , lived and worked in Camp 3 across from the gas chambers. For the first six months they took the corpses away for burial after gold teeth had been extracted. Once cremation began in early they took the corpses to the pits, refuelled the pyres, crushed the remaining bones with mallets, and collected the ashes for disposal. They were divided into three sets of twenty at the layover yard. Each set was processed within the first two hours of backing onto the ramp, and was then made ready by the Sonderkommandos to be exchanged for the next set of twenty wagons. Members of all work units were continuously beaten by the guards and often shot. Another work detail was responsible for cleaning the common areas. The Camp 1 Wohnlager residential compound contained barracks for about Sonderkommandos which, when combined with the Totenjuden living across from the gas chambers, brought their grand total to roughly one thousand at a time. Many Sonderkommando prisoners hanged themselves at . Suicides in the Totenjuden barracks occurred at the rate of 15 to 20 per day. In early , an underground Jewish resistance organisation was formed at Treblinka with the goal of seizing control of the camp and escaping to freedom. The clandestine unit was first organised by a former Jewish captain of the Polish Army , Dr. Berek Lajcher , [n] who arrived on 1 May. The initial date of the revolt was set for 15 June , but it had to be postponed. When he detonated it in the undressing area, the SS and guards were thrown into a panic. The uprising was launched on the hot summer day of 2 August Monday, a regular day of rest from gassing , when a group of Germans and 40 Ukrainians drove off to the River Bug to swim. A group of armed Jews attacked the main gate, and others attempted to climb the fence. Machine-gun fire from about 25 Germans and 60 Ukrainian Trawnikis resulted in near-total slaughter. Lajcher was killed along with most of the insurgents. About Jews [17] [18] escaped from the camp. Among the Jewish prisoners who escaped after setting fire to the camp, there were two year-olds, and Kalman Taigman , who had both arrived in and had been forced to work there under the threat of death. Taigman died in [p] and Willenberg in A normal man cannot imagine how a living person could have lived through it — killers, natural-born killers, who without a trace of remorse just murdered every little thing. Following the war, he migrated to Israel and then to Melbourne, where later in life he constructed from memory a model of Treblinka which is currently displayed at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne. After the revolt, Stangl met the head of Operation Reinhard, Odilo Globocnik, and inspector in Lublin, and decided not to draft a report, as no native Germans had died putting down the revolt. The Nazi high command may have felt that Stangl, Globocnik, Wirth, and other Reinhard personnel knew too much and wanted to dispose of them by sending them to the front. The camp's new commandant Kurt Franz , formerly its deputy commandant, took over in August. After the war he testified that gassings had stopped by then. Speed was reduced, with only ten wagons rolled onto the ramp at a time, while the others had to wait. Clean-up operations continued over the winter. As part of these operations, Jews from the surviving work detail dismantled the gas chambers brick-by-brick and used them to erect a farmhouse on the site of the camp's former bakery. Globocnik confirmed its purpose as a secret guard post for a Nazi-Ukrainian agent to remain behind the scenes, in a letter he sent to Himmler from on 5 January He was a psychiatrist from Bernburg Euthanasia Centre and the only physician-in-chief to command an extermination camp during World War II. The workers did not have enough time to bury them, and the mass graves were overflowing. Oskar Berger, a Jewish eyewitness, one of about people who escaped during the uprising, told of the camp's state when he arrived there in August When we were unloaded, we noticed a paralysing view — all over the place there were hundreds of human bodies. Piles of packages, clothes, suitcases, everything in a mess. German and Ukrainian SS-men stood at the corners of the barracks and were shooting blindly into the crowd. Eberl was transferred to Berlin, closer to operational headquarters in Hitler's Chancellery , [] where the main architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, had just stepped up the pace of the programme. Stangl had a reputation as a competent administrator with a good understanding of the project's objectives, and Globocnik trusted that he would be capable of resuming control. Stangl arrived at Treblinka in late August He replaced Eberl on 1 September. Years later, Stangl described what he first saw when he came on the scene, in a interview with Gitta Sereny : []. The road ran alongside the railway. When we were about fifteen, twenty minutes' drive from Treblinka, we began to see corpses by the line, first just two or three, then more, and as we drove into Treblinka station, there were what looked like hundreds of them — just lying there — they'd obviously been there for days, in the heat. In the station was a train full of Jews, some dead, some still alive Stangl reorganised the camp, and the transports of Warsaw and Radom Jews began to arrive again on 3 September Although he was directly responsible for the camp's operations, according to his own testimony Stangl limited his contact with Jewish prisoners as much as possible. He claimed that he rarely interfered with the cruel acts perpetrated by his subordinate officers at the camp. According to postwar testimonies, when transports were temporarily halted, then-deputy commandant Kurt Franz wrote lyrics to a song meant to celebrate the Treblinka extermination camp. In reality, prisoner Walter Hirsch wrote them for him. The melody came from something Franz remembered from Buchenwald. The music was upbeat, in the key of D major. The song was taught to Jews assigned to work in the Sonderkommando. A musical ensemble was formed, under duress, by Artur Gold , a popular Jewish prewar composer from Warsaw. He arranged the theme to the Treblinka song for the piece prisoner orchestra which he conducted. Gold arrived in Treblinka in and played music in the SS mess hall at the Wohnlager on German orders. He died during the uprising. The subsequent clean-up of the Treblinka II perimeter was completed by prisoners of nearby Treblinka I Arbeitslager in the following months. Kurt Franz maintained a photo album against orders never to take photographs inside Treblinka. Franz was careful not to photograph the gas chambers. In late July , Soviet forces began to approach from the east. Many families were killed. Until mid human ashes up to 20 carts every day had been regularly strewn by the remaining prisoners along the road for 2 kilometres 1. The new Soviet-installed government did not preserve evidence of the camp. The scene was not legally protected at the conclusion of World War II. Stalinist officials allocated no funding for the design competition nor for the memorial, and the committee disbanded in ; by then many survivors had left the country. A work crew with no archaeological experience was sent in to landscape the grounds. In , after the end of Stalinism in Poland , the Warsaw provincial council declared Treblinka to be a place of martyrology. The sculpture represents the trend toward large avant-garde forms introduced in the s throughout Europe, with a granite tower cracked down the middle and capped by a mushroom-like block carved with abstract reliefs and Jewish symbols. The camp custodian's house built nearby in [s] was turned into an exhibition space following the collapse of communism in Poland in and the retirement of the custodian; it opened in There are many estimates of the total number of people killed at Treblinka; most scholarly estimates range from , to ,, [7] [8] meaning that more Jews died at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz. The first estimate of the number of people killed at Treblinka came from Vasily Grossman , a Soviet war reporter who visited Treblinka in July as the Soviet forces marched westward across Poland. He published an article called "The Hell Called Treblinka", which appeared in the November issue of Znamya , a monthly Russian literary magazine. He may not have been aware that the short station platform at Treblinka II greatly reduced the number of wagons that could be unloaded at one time, [] and may have been adhering to the Soviet trend of exaggerating Nazi crimes for propaganda purposes. Helmut Krausnick , director of the Institute of Contemporary History. Wolfgang Scheffler. He also clandestinely photographed the burning Treblinka II perimeter during the uprising in August A further source of information became available in Discovered among declassified documents in Britain, it shows that by the official count of the German Transport Authority , Jews were sent to Treblinka in Otto Horn corpse detail was acquitted. After his extradition from Brazil to West Germany Stangl was tried for the deaths of around , people. He admitted to the killings but argued: "My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty. The theft of cash and valuables, collected from the victims of gassing, was conducted by the higher-ranking SS men on an enormous scale. It was a common practice among the concentration camps' top echelon everywhere; two Majdanek concentration camp commandants, Koch and Florstedt , were tried and executed by the SS for the same offence in April The overall amount of material gain by Nazi Germany is unknown except for the period between 22 August and 21 September , when there were wagons of goods sent and recorded. The amount of loot Globocnik stole is unknown; Suchomel claimed in court to have filled a box with one million Reichsmarks for him. Neither the Jewish religious leaders in Poland nor the authorities allowed archaeological excavations at the camp out of respect for the dead. Approval for a limited archaeological study was issued for the first time in to a British team from Staffordshire University using non-invasive technology and Lidar remote sensing. The soil resistance was analysed at the site with ground-penetrating radar. The archaeological team performing the search discovered three new mass graves. The remains were reinterred out of respect for the victims. At the second dig the findings included yellow tiles stamped with a pierced mullet star resembling a Star of David , and building foundations with a wall.

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Massive deportations from Warsaw began on July 22, Over the next two months, the Nazis deported more than , Jews from Warsaw to their deaths at Treblinka. The Nazis also murdered more than , Jews from other areas of Poland at the death camp. The camp may later also have used the poison gas Zyklon-B. Camp workers took those unable to walk to an area called the infirmary, replete with a Red Cross flag. Inside was a large ditch where they were killed. About Ukrainians and —1, Jewish male prisoners assisted with the executions, removing gold teeth, dentures, and other valuables from the corpses and transporting the remains to mass graves. The total number killed at Treblinka was some , or more, making it second only to Auschwitz in the numbers of Jews killed. On August 2, , a group of Jewish prisoner-workers rose in a planned revolt, killing some Ukrainian guards and one SS officer but generally failing in a confusion of mistiming and ill luck. Most of the or more who did escape were eventually killed or recaptured. Fewer than survivors could be found after World War II. In the s, Poland erected an impressive monument at Treblinka. Comprising 17, stones, it outlines the shape of the death camp. Concrete blocks resembling railroad ties mark the entrance to the camp where the railroad cars were brought in. A large stone arch marks the , and a sunken, blackened stone sculpture marks the site where the bodies were burned. After the war, several Treblinka officers faced trial in West Germany. In a trial lasting 10 months and concluding in August , 10 defendants were tried, including deputy camp commander Kurt Franz, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. In a trial, Commandant Stangl was also sentenced to life imprisonment. Treblinka Article Media Additional Info. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. They allowed between 1 and 2 people to be put to death in an hour. Jews arrested after the suppressed uprising in the Warsaw ghetto leave for a transport to Treblinka, April - April The transport trains, each with forty to fifty trucks and carrying 6 to 7 prisoners, ended their journey at the station in the village of Treblinka, 4 km from the camp. From there, they were sent to the camp 20 trucks at a time. The deportees were driven out of the trucks, the men were separated from the women and children and all were forced to strip naked. Then they were driven down the Schlauch into the bath house , where they died of gas poisoning within about 15 minutes. After the procedure was finished, Jewish prisoners dragged the corpses out through the back doors. Initially the bodies were buried in mass graves, but later they were burned, on the orders of Heinrich Himmler , who visited the camp in late February and early March This was also required of the victims that had already been buried, and so the mass graves had to be opened and the bodies burned. The remains and the ash were thrown back into the graves. In the reception part was a building above which there was a flag with a red cross, the Lazarett. This is where people unable to walk to the bath house by themselves were taken. Instead of receiving medical care, however, they were immediately killed. The abandoned trucks were cleared out, another twenty trucks arrived in their place and the whole process was repeated. The clothes and items left by the victims in the deportation barracks before the shower were sorted. Gradually, bankers and goldsmiths were selected from the transports and formed into a commando called the Goldjuden - Gold Jews. Their job was to collect and classify any valuables, which were then vigorously traded by Germans, Ukrainians and the local population. The first transports to Treblinka came from the Warsaw ghetto. Between the 23rd of July and the 21st of August , a total of Jews from Warsaw and from other parts of the Warsaw region were murdered here. In total Jews from the Generalgouvernement area were killed in Treblinka. In March and April , approximately 11 Jews from Macedonia and Thrace, areas newly attached to Bulgaria, were deported to Treblinka, while at the end of March 2nd, Jews also came from Thessaloniki. Over 2 Roma also died here. Franz Stangl, commander of the Treblinka extermination camp from - From April on, the camp's commander was Kurt Franz , Stangl's erstwhile deputy. The staff consisted of 20 to 30 Germans, who held leading functions, and approximately Ukrainians, who served as guards. Most of them were Soviet prisoners of war, trained in Trawniki. In addition, over Jewish prisoners were used for slave labour, which included keeping the gas chambers working and burying the bodies of the victims. In , a resistance group emerged among the prisoners used for slave labour, joined by many of the kapos and leaders of working groups. Its attempt to create a rebellion failed, however. The leadership of the resistance movement was taken over in the end by a former officer in the Czechoslovak army, Zelo Bloch. The uprising, planned from April , began on the 2nd of August The prisoners took weapons and grenades out of a storeroom for which they had made a key. They managed to set fire to the building in which the Germans and Ukrainians lived, and gradually all the buildings in the camp caught fire. The prisoners tried to climb over the barbed fortifications, but many of them were shot from the watch towers. Others managed to flee into the marshy woods, but of the seven hundred prisoners, only around 70 escaped. The rest of the prisoners, who did not manage to escape, were forced to destroy and obliterate all evidence of the activities that had gone on in the camp. Afterwards they too were shot, and a farm was built on the site of the extermination camp. Between and a memorial was constructed on the site of the camp, in the form of a cemetery. Hundreds of stone tombs bear the names of the countries and districts from which the victims came. The symbolic cemetery on the site of the former extermination camp, https://files8.webydo.com/9589591/UploadedFiles/8DF47F34-6E63-9938-88C9-BAE3B9CBB43C.pdf https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4643407/normal_601f6e455ff0a.pdf https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4640501/normal_601f50ce1b128.pdf https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4641608/normal_601feef847590.pdf

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