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TREBLINKA DEATH/LABOR CAMP
By Lbiyemi Ojo
INTRODUCTION
The Holocaust started in 1933, murder or genocide
towards Jews during the World War II, led by Adolf Hitler
and the Nazi Party which swept through Poland and the
Soviet Union. “The Holocaust was the Nazis’ systematic
murder of millions of Jews and non-Aryans during World
War II”. Treblinka Death Camp, where Jews are deported
to, put to work, and later exterminated but some escaped
at this camp, just like other death/labor camps.
TREBLINKA I
In November 1941, the SS and police
authorities established a forced-labor
camp for Jews, known as Treblinka, later
called Treblinka I.
Also served as a so-called Labor
Education Camp for non-Jewish poles.
TREBLINKA II
In July 1942, the Reinhard authorities
completed the construction of a killing
center, known as Treblinka II,
approximately a mile from the labor
camp.
T.II. CONT.
The Treblinka II killing center was located
near the Polish village of Wolka Okraglik along
the Malkinia-Siedlce railway line. The Germans
built a rail spur that led from the labor camp,
Treblinka I, to the killing center, Treblinka II,
and that connected as well to the Malkinia
station. The site of the killing center was
heavily wooded and hidden from view.
The camp was laid out in a trapezoid. Branches
woven into the barbed-wire fence and trees
planted around the perimeter served as
camouflage, blocking any view into the camp
from the outside. Watchtowers 26 feet high were
placed along the fence and at each of the four
corners.
The camp was divided into three parts: the
reception area, the living area, and the killing area.
The living area contained housing for German staff
and the guard unit. It also contained administrative
offices, a clinic, storerooms, and workshops. One
section contained barracks that housed those Jewish
prisoners selected from incoming transports to
provide forced labor to support the camp’s function:
mass murder.
DEPORTATION
Late July - September 1942, the Germans deported around
265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka.
August - November 1942, SS and police authorities deported
around 346,000 Jews to Treblinka II from the Radom District.
October 1942 - February 1943, the Germans deported more
than 110,000 Jews from the Bialystok District to Treblinka II.
At least 33,300 Jews from District Lublin.
H T T P : / / W W W. Y O U T U B E . C O M / W A T C H ? V = G F N V V S Q X T D W
Deportations Cont.
RESISTANCE & REVOLT
The “Organizing Committee”, a group composed of
prisoners from Treblinka I and II, was created to plan an
uprising and mass escape.
August 2, 1943, the Committee launched their revolt: the
leaders broke into the weaponry and the prisoners
stormed the main gate and escaped.
300 prisoners escaped, but 2/3 were tracked down and
killed.
END OF TREBLINKA
The Germans had ordered that Treblinka II be dismantled
in the fall of 1943.
Treblinka I, the forced-labor camp, continued operations
until late July 1944.
Treblinka had murdered about 800,000 individuals.
Compared to Auschwitz, believed about 1,290,000 were
killed, Treblinka’s numbers were not horrifying.
Treblinka had more deaths than Belzec (400,000) and
Sobibor (200,000)
CONCLUSION
For fourteen months the Treblinka's operation, that began in July 1942,
murdered between 870,000 and 925,000 Jews by a staff of 150. From all
the thousands of Jews murder, fewer than one hundred survived. This
topic was very interesting to me from learning how and where the Jews
were deported, what caused the camp to end, and how the Jews attempted
to escaped. Throughout my years of going to school and learning about the
Holocaust this is the first time I’ve heard about Jews planning or
attempting to escape from a concentration, death, or labor camp.
TREBLINKA TODAY