Copyright Bildarchiv PreuBischer Kulturvesitz, Berlin 1996. As with all villages and towns within a twenty to thirty mile radius of this death camp, Treblinka was the final destination for the nearly 2500 Jews of Bransk. They were transported there by train via Bielsk on November 8, 1942. Treblinka, established in 1941 as a forced labor camp for those accused of crimes by the occupation ...

Treblinka For the first 20 to 25 years after World War II, the survivors of the Holocaust mostly kept silent about their horrendous experiences in the concentration camps. In those years, the only Nazi concentration camp names that were familiar to most Americans were Dachau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen, the places that were shown in the newsreels in movie theaters following their liberation by ...

Proceedings of the Fourth Yad Vashem International: Acts of Resistance and the Organization of the Revolt in Treblinka ...