Treblinka

On This Day: 79 years since Jews revolted at Nazi's Treblinka death camp

The revolt saw only a few Jews manage to escape the extermination camp, with only 70 surviving until the end of the war. But it crippled the camp in its final months.

Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.
Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.

On this day: Treblinka extermination camp uprising

Album art by Amos Funk, elements courtesy of Sarah Aroeste

Sarah Aroeste revitalizes lost Jewish community using Sephardi music

The train station in Macedonia from where Jews were deported to Treblinka

Grapevine, August 5, 2020: Remembering Treblinka


Newly discovered photos of Nazi death camp may show guard Demjanjuk

The photos described by historian Martin Cueppers as a representing a "quantum leap in the visual record on the Holocaust in occupied Poland," had belonged to former deputy commandant Johann Niemann.

Purported photo of John Demjanjuk

Museum releases possible photo of ‘Ivan the Terrible’ Demjanjuk at Sobibor

Once top of the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi criminals, Demjanjuk said he was drafted into the Soviet army in 1941 and then taken prisoner by the Germans.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says that it is possible that Ivan Demjanjuk aka John Demjanjuk, believed to be "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblenka, may be the man in the middle of the first row

Mass grave found at Nazi forced-labor camp Treblinka I

Experts are determining the number and size of the burial pits in the location, near the more well-known Treblinka II death camp, before exhuming and attempting to identify the bodies.

The train station in Macedonia from where Jews were deported to Treblinka

Why Poland doesn’t like this Netflix series

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland wrote a letter to the head of Netflix complaining of “historical inaccuracies” in its series “The Devil Next Door.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a commemoration event at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during the ceremonies marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day

Treblinka - 77 years since Nazi death camp began operations

Nearly a million Jews and 2,000 Romani’s were murdered between July 1942 and October 1943.

The train tracks that lead to the Treblinka death camp

Claude Lanzmann ou le don des électrochocs

Avec son dernier film, le réalisateur frappe un nouveau grand coup sur les cœurs et les consciences

Hanna Marton, une des quatre protagonistes du film de Claude Lanzmann

Shoah : ne jamais oublier de se souvenir

Le 27 janvier 1945, le camp d’Auschwitz était libéré. Cette date marque également la Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste

Une plaque commémorative à Yad Vashem

Martin Gray, author of best-selling Holocaust memoir, dies at 93

Gray was found in the swimming pool of his second home in Ciney, Belgium, but officials said no foul play was suspected, British media reported.

Martin Gray, an author and Polish-born Holocaust survivor

Rivlin at funeral for last Treblinka Revolt survivor: Samuel Willenberg was a symbol of heroism

Hundred pay last respects to leader of revolt at Nazi death camp, who died Friday at age 93.

Funeral for Treblinka Revolt survivor Samuel Willenberg in Udim, February 22, 2016

A Flame Re-Ignited: My Trip to Poland, Part IV

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71st anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising commemorated

Crowds in Polish capital mark beginning of Jewish resistance against Nazis during World War II.

Ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,  April 19, 2013.