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Initially, Treblinka was built to kill the Jews in the Warsaw and Bialystock ghettos.

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How many Jews were sent from the Warsaw Ghettos to Treblinka extermination camp and How long did it take?

310,000+ Jews were sent to Treblinka. The time period was between less than 3 months.


Did the Nazis gas the Jews in concentration camp?

Yes, in extermination camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.


What is the Treblinka extermination camp all about?

A Nazi extermination camp, Treblinka, operated from July 1942 until October 1943. In this short time, it is estimated by some between 780,000 and 1,000,000 men, women and children were put to death there, the majority of them Jews.


What kind of labor did they do at Treblinka II?

Treblinka II was an extermination camp. Its sole purpose was to kill Jews, and most of them were gassed as soon as possible after arrival. A very small number of new arrivals were 'selected' to help with the extermination process by burying the corpses. It was not a labor camp.


Extermination camp linked to Warsaw?

The main camp used for the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto was Treblinka, where an estimated 850,000 Jews were murdered.


What kind of work did people do in treblinka?

Treblinka was an extermination camp, not an ordinary concentration camp. The idea was to kill new arrivals as soon as possible. It served no other purpose. A very small number of new arrivals were made to help with the extermination process itself. In particular they had to dig mass graves and sort the belongings that the newly arrived and gassed victims had brought with them.


Death camp?

Built by Nazis to carry out the mass extermination of Jews through gas chambers along with other brutal methods; included Chelmno and Auschwitz; many would have crematoriums built to hide the evidence of this mass murder


Where did the Jews from the ghetto go?

From the ghettos they were marched to railway stations, forced into cattle trucks and transported to extermination camps, such as Auschwitz II and Treblinka.


How many Jews were transported to Treblinka?

The sole purpose of Treblinka was to kill Jews and gypsies as quickly as possible after their arrival. It was an extermination camp. A relatively small number of new arrivals were 'selected' for grave digging and sorting the possessions of gassed victims. For these reasons the camp was small, and the number of prisoners there was small, too - probably not more than about 1,500 at any time.


Where is Treblinka?

Treblinka II was the main extermination camp after Auschwitz II (Birkenau). An estimated 850,000 Jews were slaughtered there and only about 40-45 survived.


What work was done in the Warsaw ghetto?

The Jews were forced to build a wall. This was done so the Jews could not escape until the Germans could send them to concentration camps. Many were sent to Treblinka for extermination.


Where were Belzec Sobibor and amp Treblinka were all located?

Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were all located in what is now southeastern Poland. They were Nazi extermination camps established during World War II as part of Operation Reinhard, aimed at the systematic murder of Jews and other targeted groups. These camps played a significant role in the Holocaust, with millions of people being killed in their gas chambers. Each camp was designed for mass extermination, and their operation was part of the broader genocidal policies of the Nazi regime.