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Hitler Rise to power
Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Treblinka one and two
The camp operated between July 1942 and October 1943 as part, the deadliest phase of the Final Solution. It is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Romano people. More Jews were killed at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz. -
Nazi Attack
Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, -
World war 2 starts
The start of World war Starts. -
The United States join World War II
United States join the war helping getting the Jews out of the camps. -
1943, the tide of World War II began to turn against Nazi Germany
Losses in North Africa and the massive defeat at Stalingrad destroyed the myth of German military invincibility and stiffened anti-Nazi resistance, even in the killing centers and concentration camps of occupied Europe. -
The creation of the Organizing Commitee
A group of Jewish prisoners, calling themselves the “Organizing Committee,” began planning an uprising and mass escape. The Committee included over time former Polish army officer Dr. Julian Chimborazo, “camp elder” Marcelo Galewski, former Czech army officer Zelo Bloch and Jankiel Wiernik, a carpenter who worked in the extermination area. -
The planing of the takeover
The Jewish underground suffered some serious setbacks. In April 1943 the camps deputy commandant discovered Chimborazo, who was in charge of procuring weapons from the outside. In the struggle that ensued the resistance leader chose to commit suicide by swallowing a vial of poison rather than risk the possibility that under torture he would reveal the identities of his comrades. -
More of the plans
Despite the death of Chorazycki and the difficulty of obtaining arms from the outside, the Committee continued with its plans for an uprising and succeeded in making a spare key to the weapons storeroom. The Jewish fighters learned about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prisoners on the incoming transports, and this strengthened their resolve and boosted their morale. -
The take over
Prisoners quietly seized weapons from the camp armory, but were discovered before they could take over the camp. Hundreds of prisoners stormed the main gate in an attempt to escape. Many were killed by machine-gun fire. More than 300 did escape. Though two thirds of those who escaped were eventually tracked down and killed by German SS and police as well as military units. -
More of the take over
On August 2, 1943, the Committee launched their revolt. The prisoners stole weapons from the SS storeroom, attacked the German, and set some of the buildings on fire. The resistance leaders fought bravely to aid the escape of the inmates. Under gunfire from the watchtowers, many prisoners broke through the camp’s barbed-wire fences. -
More info about the fight
Preferring to die fighting than by gas, 800 inmates armed with 20 rifles and not much else rebelled. They weren't victorious, but the concentration camp was damaged badly enough to be shut down two months later. -
The store
This store was built to hide guns and stuff, the fitters and the construction workers. An extra key to the store had to be made. And, in fact they made a key, and the children were to go into the store, to remove arms in sacks, and to place them on refuse carts- guns, bullets, hand grenades and revolvers. -
Treblinka 1 and 2
The Germans had tolled that Treblinka two be dismantled in the fall of 1943. From July 1942 through November 1943, the Germans killed between 870,000 and 925,000 Jews at the killing center. Treblinka one, the forcedlabor camp, continued operations until late July 1944. While the killing center was in operation, some of the arriving Jews were selected and transferred to Treblinka one, while Jews too weak to work at Treblinka one were periodically sent to Treblinka two to be killed. -
Adolf Hitler is dead
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his Reich collapses above him. -
World War two end
World War has ended -
How many survivors were there in Treblinka
Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were murdered during World War 2. He was 93. Willenberg was one of only 67 people known to have survived Treblinka, a camp designed with the sole intention of killing Jews. -
A Treblinka fact
Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Maldivian Voivodeship. -
Some Facts about the escape
Of an estimated 300 inmates who escaped from Treblinka that day, about 100 survived the massive SS manhunt. Jankiel Wiernik escaped his captors and found shelter with a righteous Pole. With the assistance of Jewish underground leaders in Warsaw, he secretly published his memoirs of Treblinka and of the camp's uprising, which were then token to England and the United States. -
How many people were murdered at Treblinka
It is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers. More Jews were killed at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz.
