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It’s easy to reflexively and statistically view those who died in the Holocaust during World War II as tragic victims, but ...
Four Frenchwomen who were sent by the Nazis to a camp for female prisoners found support in one another—during and after ...
The death toll at Treblinka was second only to Auschwitz - a prison camp where more than a million people died in gas chambers or from starvation and disease.
Treblinka takes its title from the death camp 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, where some 700,000 Jews were gassed, shot, hanged or beaten to death.
In the summer and into the fall of 1942, the Germans deported over a quarter of a million Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to be exterminated at the Treblinka death camp. In the ensuing uprising in the ...
Ten former SS officers and guards of the notorious Treblinka concentration camp heard the prosecution detail charges today of murder, man slaughter and sadistic cruelty in the opening session of ...
While visiting the memorial museum at Theresienstadt, I stood in front of a wall bearing names of child victims who were deported from the ghetto to death camps. There, I saw the name Jiří ...
A clandestine photograph of the burning death camp Treblinka II, taken by eyewitness Franciszek Ząbecki during the uprising on Aug. 2, 1943. Franciszek Ząbecki/Wikimedia Commons Defiance and ...
Diane Forman believed that visiting the death camp where her great-grandmother was killed could help her heal from her family's trauma.
At its peak, Treblinka was among the most efficient of Hitler’s death camps. On this Sunday morning, Remembrance Day, the survivors returned to bear witness.
On August 2, 1943, 78 years ago today, the prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp revolted, causing damage and allowing several hundred prisoners to escape.