§Made by: Taylor Tomson§
               In 1941 a terrible camp called Treblinka was built.  It was built by a forced labor camp.  It was built for those accused of crimes by authorities.  Treblinka was finally open in 1942.
              Around the time Treblinka was built few Americans had ever even heard of Treblinka.  The camps that they knew about were: Dachau, Buchenwald, and Bergen Blesen.
             Treblinka was located 62 miles northeast of the Polish capital Warsaw.  Treblinka was a hidden camp.  It was hidden by a barbed wire fence camouflaged by an interwoven greenery.  It was hidden to hide what was happening inside.  Treblinka wasn't an isolated camp, it wasn't even well guarded.  Treblinka 1 was split into two parts.  The first part was the administrative part.  The second part was the receiving area for the Jews.  
            
             About a year after Treblinka 1 was built they added another part to it.  It was called Treblinka II.  It was built to exterminate the Jewish people.  Treblinka II became a main extermination center of the Nazi regime.  Materials were taken from the Warsaw ghetto to help build Treblinka II.  It was also a critical link tot he third Reich's plan.  The camp was made up of German firms.  Treblinka II was a mile away from the original camp.
             Treblinka had a specific routine to follow.  It supported the ruse of settlement.  The routine was to minimize the chance of Jewish rebellion or resistance.
             Details were later added to the camp.  They were added to support the Jewish resettlement.  The details included: A star of David on the front wall of Treblinka's "gas house".  Treblinka also had certain curtains that had to be hung up.  They had to be hung in the entrance of the camp.
  Treblinka        In the armory, prisoners were quietly seizing weapons.  The prisoners (Jewish people) were discovered before they could ever take over the camp.  Hundreds tried to escape at the main gate of the camp.  The people that weren't so lucky were the ones that tried to escape.  If you did try to escape you would get shot by a machine gun.
               During the 14 month trial in Jerusalem of John Demjanjuk, Treblinka became a main focus of world wide attention.  "Ivan the Terrible" was John's nickname for the camp Treblinka.  To gas the Jews in Treblinka John had to supposedly operate the machinery.  John's family didn't know about "Ivan the Terrible".  They finally  discovered it by the  suppressed evidence from the Soviet Russian archives.  Treblinka camp survivors "positively" identified John Demjanjuk as the mass murderer of Treblinka.
                Stories show that people in Treblinka were killed in "death rooms" or "steam chambers". In the steam chambers Jews were steamed to death.  In the death rooms Jews were steamed to death by tiny holes in the pipes that steam leaked through.
            Another form of killing Jews also happened in Treblinka.  Some people were claimed by gunshot or being burned to death.  Genocide was another killing that happened there many times.
            Treblinka was a word and only one word and that word was death. Treblinka was a system of human extermination.  It assumed in near perfection for death.  Jews brought here had only moments to live.  Thousands of Jewish lives were claimed here.
             Himmler visited Treblinka in February or March in 1943.  That is the time when they began to burn the bodies.  In 1943 resistance groups were formed by the Jewish inmates.  The groups leaders decided to revolt in late spring and summer of 1943.
              Treblinka was a death camp like Auschwitz.  The two camps were first and second in the number of Jews that died in them.  At Treblinka 870,000 Jews died and at Auschwitz 1.1 million Jews died.
              In hours of being in Treblinka hundreds died and in days thousands died.  To burn the dead bodies they put rails over a hole or ditch that had a fire in it.  They put the dead bodies over the hole to burn.  Behind a building at Treblinka there was a large pit that and burning furnaces in it.  They also did the same by putting the bodies on the rails then burning them.  Every night form afar you could see flames from the pyres of human bodies burning to death. You could also see pillars of black smoke from the bodies that were burning from afar.
   Eight hundred thousand are in the soil of Treblinka.  The Jews came from ten European countries.  They were: Belgium, France, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Germany, and the Soviet Union.  Cruelty, bestiality, and Martyrdom have all became a synonym of Treblinka. Inside Treblinka
 
        Treblinka had no documentary evidence that it was an extermination center.  Treblinka actually had many different functions.  Photographs were taken in 1944 by airplane of Treblinka "death camp".  The photographs were forgotten for about 45 years in the National Archives in Washington DC.  They later cast thoughts  that Treblinka was actually a "transit camp". Treblinka was finally closed in November 1943.

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