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Treblinka extermination camp was created in 1942.
About 600 prisoners managed to break out of the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived till the end of World War 2 or longer.
They were Auschwitz concentration camp numbers and did not have any 'meaning'.
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.
The prisoners in the Sonderkommando, that is those who had to sort possession and help dispose of the corpses, discoved that the camp was going to be dissolved and that they were going to be killed: they decided that they had nothing to lose.
The Camp Commando of Treblinka Extermination Camp was Kurt Hubert Franz (He was the 3rd and last commando of Treblinka.
Treblinka extermination camp was created in 1942.
Treblinka extermination camp ended in 1943.
Treblinka (I) began as a concentration camp for Poles.
About 600 prisoners managed to break out of the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived till the end of World War 2 or longer.
They were Auschwitz concentration camp numbers and did not have any 'meaning'.
Treblinka was a Nazi death camp on the northern part of Poland during the Holocaust.
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.
The prisoners in the Sonderkommando, that is those who had to sort possession and help dispose of the corpses, discoved that the camp was going to be dissolved and that they were going to be killed: they decided that they had nothing to lose.
Treblinka extermination camp
The Jews during this point in time at every concentration camp were marked by numbers tattooed on there forearms
Initially, Treblinka was built to kill the Jews in the Warsaw and Bialystock ghettos.