| Treblinka
was one of the Aktion Reinhard camps built to kill the more than 2,000,000
Jews living in what the Nazis called the General Government. From
1942 to 1943 more than 800,000 were killed by carbon monoxide. One of the most moving of the Holocaust memorial sites today, Treblinka sits in a heavily wooded rural area about 90 minutes by car from Warsaw. A cobblestone path leads one into the woods, with stone markers providing basic information along the way. As one nears the central area of the site, the railway memorial marks the path of the transports that brought their unsuspecting victims to the fake rail station disguised to look like a typical stop on the line. At the end of the path a huge field opens to the left. Dominating the field is the massive stone monument dedicated to the residents of the Warsaw ghetto. The Warsaw monument stands in a sea of more than 15,000 jagged, nameless stones that represent the communities destroyed at this place. The pictures below were taken on June 24, 2000. |
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Railway monument. | |
| Information stone in English. |
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Field of stones. | |