On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

An estimated 925,000 people, primarily Jewish people deported from the Warsaw ghettos, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti were murdered at Treblinka. It is, as Iwona Wasilewska, the deputy director ...

The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish population to the Majdanek and Treblinka death camps. But instead of ...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA ... where Jews during the German occupation were gathered for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. “This year we go there where the doctors and the medical ...

or were sent to the Treblinka death camp. Some Jews who remained in the area eventually revolted against the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Though the rebellion was quickly ...

Janusz Korczak, the head of the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, chose to stay and die with the children in his care According to German sources, more than 250,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka in ...

It was a terrible thing.” – Eugenia Samuel, Treblinka Villager Sixty miles northeast of Warsaw, the SS built a death factory called Treblinka. Unlike Auschwitz, its only purpose was to kill ...

The first transports reached Treblinka on July 23, 1942 and included Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto approximately 62 miles away. “Our goal was to destroy the factory of death,” said Samuel ...

A first-hand account by last-known survivor Samuel Willenberg, now 92 years old, about his life during the Holocaust and as a Jewish inmate of the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Between the end of July and the end of September 1942, 2540,000 Jews from other locations in the Warsaw district were murdered at the Treblinka death camp. On November 24th, 1942, Rabbi Stephen ...