Treblinka was a death camp, not a concentration camp. The three death camps for Polish Jews were Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. They were small, near railroad junctions, and hidden in remote places.
From July 1940 to Autumn 1943, 900,000 people, mainly Jews and some
Jews and some Gypsies perished at Treblinka from carbon monoxide poisoning from truck engines.
After a revolt by the Sonderkommandos during which 300 prisoners escaped, the Nazis destroyed the camp trying to hide the evidence of genocide.
This map was drawn from memory by someone who survived Treblinka.
This place is a Memorial to all those who were murdered here. There are thousands of broken stones. Here on the right are big concrete railway tires to remember the trains that brought the people here.
These memorials name the countries of the victims.
Here is the main memorial surrounded by stones.
Our group posed for a photo.
A tiny butterfly liked Rachel, hanging out on her finger.
The stones seem to go on forever, like some cemeteries. Some have the names of the villages that the people came from.
A special monument to Janus Korczak and his orphan children. His is the only name here.
This basalt simulates the burned bodies in the crematorium.
This place is beautiful and peaceful with flowers and butterflies all around. Here, also as in Lapuchowo, there was music. One group had musical instruments and the singing of the Israeli national anthem,
"Hatikva" (The Hope) was particularly sweet.
We had dinner together in the Radisson Hotel.
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