Treblinka was built as a concentration. It was located in a sparsely populated area along a railroad line on Warsaw-Biastok. It was near Treblinka in Poland. People called this camp the slaughter-house. Jews obeyed like sheep to the gas chambers.
The camp was first built into a concentration camp in Treblinka in 1941. Jews had hard labor. Then this labor camp was built into a extermination camp in July 1942. This camp received many million Jews from the ghettos of Warsaw. This lasted about from July 23 and continued to September. Over 265,00 Jews were deported to Treblinka which was 60 miles away.
Treblinka was built into a rectangle shape. There were watch towers at each corner. Around the whole camp was barbed wire fence. In the built extermination camp, there was commandant of the camp. His name was Eberl. Then Eberl was replaced by Franz Stangl in the spring of 1942.
Many Jews were deported from ghettos. Long railroads that were constructed directly to the death camps carried many trains loaded with Jews. Terrified of what might happen to them, the Jews were forced off the train and went into two barracks. Men went to one side, and women and children went on the other side. Every Jew that were deported to the camp were forced to undress, have their jewels taken away, and wait until the camp commandants decided what to do with them. All of the women’s hair were shaved off. All the prisoners lined up like sheep and silently waited upon their fate. The line led into a threatening pipe which led into gas chambers. In the gas chambers, there were pipes that looked like shower head, but instead it was poison carbon monoxide pouring through to the Jews. Many of the Jews were fooled. They thought they were taking a shower.
It was a tragic. Some elderly who were disable or people that were ill were just shot at the stop. The Jews were not even treated like humans. They had all objects on them even gold teeth and identification marks removed. Piles and piles would be rapidly burned in large open trenches.
As if the massive killing method was not fast enough, three gas chambers increased to ten gas chambers between August and October 1942. A death of 750,000 to 870,000 Jews from Warsaw gassed to ashes. Along with other gypsies and homosexuals were turned to ashes too.
Finally, on summer of 1943, the camp was ordered to be closed by Heinrech Himmler. The Nazis crimes was discovered. The commandants of the death camps tried to bury up their crimes. Bodies were dug up and burned and bone crushers were used to destroy evidence of crime. While this was happening, a revolt broke out on August 2, 1943. Jews broke out and took weapons away from the armory supplies. They burned buildings and caused a big riot. Seventy Jews were able to escape.
Lastly, the commandants that committed crime or involved in the death camps or Nazis were put to trials. The results were that they were sentenced to life prisonment or death.
Wigoder, Geoffrey. "Treblinka." The Holocaust. Volume 4. Danbury: Groiler Educational, 1997.
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