Treblinka

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The death camp at Treblinka was built in the spring of 1942. The camp was surrounded by a high barbed wire fence that was camouflaged with interwoven greenery to hide what was happening inside. Watch towers were also positioned around the camp. This death camp was very unique from the other camps because the Nazi in charge of the camp had built a fake train station to fool the Jews. The victims at Treblinka believed that this camp was just a transit station and that they were just stopping for a few minutes and then leaving to go someplace else. ======

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They were sadly mistakened. The first railway transports of victims arrived at the Treblinka camp on June 22, 1942. This was a death camp and when the trains arrived the women and children were seperated from the men and then taken to the gas chambers. This camp was also unique in that the gas they used in the chambers was different than the Zyklon-B that was used at the other death camps. At Treblinka they used fuel from tank engines which suffocated the prisoners instead of poisoning them. ======

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This continued up until 1943. By this time the number of transports began to diminish. In March of 1943 a man named Himmler visited Treblinka. He and the remainder of the guards at Treblinka burned the camp to the ground along with all the corpes in the mass graves. This caused some people to beileve that this camp was never actually a death camp but we know better than that. It has been estimated that about 850,000 people were killed here - Jews from Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Yugoslavia and the USSR, as well as from Germany and Austria.Treblinka was finally closed in November, 1943. ======