Treblinka II was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Around 850,000 people—more than 99.5 percent of whom were Jews, but also other victims (among them 2,000 Romani people)—were killed there between July 1942 and October 1943; the camp was closed after a revolt during which a few Germans were killed and a small number of prisoners escaped. The nearby Treblinka I was a forced labour camp and administrative comp...
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Treblinka II was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Around 850,000 people—more than 99.5 percent of whom were Jews, but also other victims (among them 2,000 Romani people)—were killed there between July 1942 and October 1943; the camp was closed after a revolt during which a few Germans were killed and a small number of prisoners escaped. The nearby Treblinka I was a forced labour camp and administrative complex in support of the death camp.
Treblinka was designed purely for extermination of people, its area measuring just 600 by 400 metres (1968' x 1312') and was one of four secret camps of Operation Reinhard the other three being Bełżec, Sobibór and Majdanek. Kulmhof (Chełmno) extermination camp was originally built as a pilot project for the development of the other camps. Operation Reinhard was overseen by SS-Obergruppenführer Odilo Globocnik in occupied Poland as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler's deputy. Unlike other Nazi concentration camps...
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