Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka extermination camp (pronounced [tre'bljinka]) was an extermination camp built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located near the village of Treblinka (now in Masovian Voivodeship) north-east of Warsaw. The camp operated officially between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 as part of Operation Reinhard, the most deadly phase of the Final Solution. During this period, it is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Romani people. More Jews were killed at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz.

Quotes

• Just as we went by, they were opening the gas-chamber doors, and people fell out like potatoes. ... Each day one hundred Jews were chosen to drag the corpses to the mass graves. In the evening the Ukrainians drove those Jews into the gas chambers or shot them. Every day! ... More people kept coming, always more, whom we hadn't the facilities to kill. ... The gas chambers couldn't handle the load.
  • Franz Suchomel, SS officer (Unterscharführer), on his first impressions of the Treblinka extermination camp (This quote was taken from interviews in the documentary film Shoah)

See also

• Auschwitz concentration camp
• Gas chamber