Scenes from a Visit to the Treblinka Extermination Camp on 22 September 2015 during a motorhome tour of Eastern Poland
Approximately 870,000 people were murdered at Treblinka on the River Bug between July 1942 and October 1943. The great majority were Jews brought by the trainload in cattle trucks from many parts of German-occupied Europe where they had been concentrated in ghettos. The victims were transferred from the unloading ramp directly into one of three gas chambers, pausing only to leave all their belongings including their clothes.The killing was carried out with the exhaust fumes from the engine of a captured Russian tank.
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Trebllinka are memorials to the victims and information boards around the site with information, photographs and personal accounts from a few of the handful of survivors..
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Trebllinka are memorials to the victims and information boards around the site with information, photographs and personal accounts from a few of the handful of survivors..
