Treblinka (locality)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Mazovia | ||
| Powiat : | Ostrów Mazowiecka | ||
| Gmina : | Małkinia Górna | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 40 ′ N , 22 ° 1 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 270 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 29 | ||
| License plate : | WOR | ||
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| Street : | Sokołów Podlaski - Ostrów Mazowiecka | ||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
Treblinka [ trɛˈbliŋka ] is a village with about 270 inhabitants in Poland . Treblinka is a place in the municipality ( Gmina ) Małkinia Górna ( Powiat Ostrowski in the Masovian Voivodeship ).
geography
Treblinka is located near the Western Bug about 75 km northeast of Warsaw .
history
From December 1941 to July 1944 at the latest, the Treblinka I forced labor camp was located near Treblinka . Another camp was set up the following year.
In the Treblinka extermination camp (Treblinka II) , which was built a few kilometers away on the railway line in 1942 , well over 700,000 and, according to scientifically proven estimates, up to 1.1 million people from all over Europe were murdered during the National Socialist era .
Treblinka was the first death camp in which prisoners dared a revolt, the Treblinka revolt against the SS guards and the Ukrainian guards ( Trawniki ). After the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1943, survivors of the uprising and a. Imprisoned in the Treblinka concentration camp, where they then formed resistance groups to plan the uprising that was ultimately successful and to carry it out on August 2, 1943.
Footnotes
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↑ Frank Golczewski in Wolfgang Benz: Dimension des Genölkermordes , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1996, p. 468, ISBN 978-3-423-04690-9
Estimation of the number of victims in the Treblinka trial at least 700,000, according to Rachel Auerbach 1,074,000, this is from Golczewski considered likely.