Treblinka Concentration Camp During The Holocaust
Treblinka Concentration Camp The Holocaust was a horrifying event. Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933. Later they started constructing places to hold the Jewish and other people they called these place concentration camps.Treblinka was one of those camps. Treblinka was a part of Hitler’s final solution. Now you will learn about this terrible camp.
“In July of 1942, the Operation Reinhard authorities had finished a killing center, known as Treblinka II.” (Treblinka) From late July and September 1942, German forces transported about 265,000 Jewish people and families from Warsaw to Treblinka. “In 1943 the victims’ bodies were exhumed and burned by the group known as Sonderkommando.”(Treblinka) In the fall of 1942, they begin taking the bodies …show more content…
Soviet troops then gained power of both the camps in the last week of the camps. After the camp was liberated there was a total of 67 people alive.
“Treblinka was a camp hidden the remote forests of northeastern Poland.”(Treblinka Concentration Camp) The camp was close to the village known as Treblinka 50 mile northeast of Poland. The camps Treblinka I and Treblinka II were just miles from each other. So if the prisoners from Treblinka I were too ill or old they were sent to Treblinka II to be killed. “Treblinka was near Bug River, which during WWII was the border between the Nazi occupied General Government of Poland and the area occupied by the Russian.” (Treblinka Concentration …show more content…
The prisoners would run naked along these paths, then they would run right into the gas chamber and there they would be gassed.The ill people were told by the SS they were going to be brought to the Red Cross flag at the end of the tube and then they would throw them in a pit along the tube, and then right there they would be shot. The camp was a little unknown camp that was kept a secret for 20-25 years after WW II. Treblinka was one of Hitler's final destination for the Jews of the concentration camp. “Treblinka had the second most people killed, it was next to Auschwitz.”(Treblinka) “The authorities consisted of a small staff of German SS and police personnel, the staff was mainly between 25 and 35 men, and there was a police auxiliary guard unit that consists of 90 to 150
“In July of 1942, the Operation Reinhard authorities had finished a killing center, known as Treblinka II.” (Treblinka) From late July and September 1942, German forces transported about 265,000 Jewish people and families from Warsaw to Treblinka. “In 1943 the victims’ bodies were exhumed and burned by the group known as Sonderkommando.”(Treblinka) In the fall of 1942, they begin taking the bodies …show more content…
Soviet troops then gained power of both the camps in the last week of the camps. After the camp was liberated there was a total of 67 people alive.
“Treblinka was a camp hidden the remote forests of northeastern Poland.”(Treblinka Concentration Camp) The camp was close to the village known as Treblinka 50 mile northeast of Poland. The camps Treblinka I and Treblinka II were just miles from each other. So if the prisoners from Treblinka I were too ill or old they were sent to Treblinka II to be killed. “Treblinka was near Bug River, which during WWII was the border between the Nazi occupied General Government of Poland and the area occupied by the Russian.” (Treblinka Concentration …show more content…
The prisoners would run naked along these paths, then they would run right into the gas chamber and there they would be gassed.The ill people were told by the SS they were going to be brought to the Red Cross flag at the end of the tube and then they would throw them in a pit along the tube, and then right there they would be shot. The camp was a little unknown camp that was kept a secret for 20-25 years after WW II. Treblinka was one of Hitler's final destination for the Jews of the concentration camp. “Treblinka had the second most people killed, it was next to Auschwitz.”(Treblinka) “The authorities consisted of a small staff of German SS and police personnel, the staff was mainly between 25 and 35 men, and there was a police auxiliary guard unit that consists of 90 to 150