Treblinka II | extermination camp, Poland | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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  In Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  …265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka. Only some 55,000 remained in the ghetto. As the deportations continued, despair gave way to a determination to resist. A newly formed group, the Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB), slowly took effective control of the ghetto.
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extermination camp

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  In extermination camp
  Sobibor, and Treblinka. At its peak, the Auschwitz complex, the most notorious of the sites, housed 100,000 persons at its death camp (Auschwitz II, or Birkenau). Its poison-gas chambers could accommodate 2,000 at one time, and 12,000 could be gassed and incinerated each day. Prisoners who were…
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part of Treblinka

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  In Treblinka
  II” (Treblinka II) in official dispatches—was 1 mile (1.6 km) from the first and opened in July 1942 as an extermination camp for Jews as part of the “final solution to the Jewish question,” or the Holocaust. The Nazis established this camp—along with Belzec and Sobibor—as…
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