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    An extermination camp in Poland built in 1942 in addition to the pre-existing labor camp that killed over 900,000 prisoners. It served as a Nazi killing center for deported citizens from ghettos and other camps that became overpopulated. It was a specifically chosen location due to it's an environment it was able to conceal the murders. In the spring of 1942 Treblinka a mass execution facility was operational. The camp was carefully selected to obscure from the nearest city. It was located in North-Eastern

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    Treblinka was the main extermination camp used during the hitler Nazi reign. The Extermination camp was only around for one year but had more deaths than any other camp. Treblinka isn’t one of the well known camp but it is one of the camps most known for it’s larger extermination areas. Treblinka death camp is located in the North-eastern region of the general government and it is also located near the Polish village of Wolka Okraglik. Treblinka was a junction on the Warsaw-Bialystok railway line

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    them were gassed at Treblinka Extermination Camp. Almost one million of that 60% were killed at Treblinka. Treblinka had a major impact on WWII. To start off with, many Jews were killed at Treblinka Extermination camp. Apart from Auschwitz, Treblinka murdered the highest amount of jews out of all of the camps (Treblinka extermination camp). An estimate says between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed there (Treblinka extermination camp). Train cars were brought to Treblinka around twenty cars at

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    machines (Treblinka).” Treblika was designed as a Nazi extermination camp occupied in Poland. The camp was consisted of two separate units; Treblinka I was a forced-labor camp, and the second camp, Treblinka II, was an extermination camp. It was operated between 1941 to 1944 and approximately 850,000 men, women and children were murdered, including more than 800,000 Jews. (Niss) However, under the Nazis’ dreadful torture, some Jews gathered together to plan for the revolt. Treblinka I was found

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    Treblinka was a death camp built during WWII, its purpose was for the plan called “OPERATION REINHARD”. Treblinka was built in the year 1942 and was located in a forest Northeast of Warsaw. Construction work on Treblinka began at the beginning of April 1942, after some German SS-soldiers came to the village of Poniatowa and inspected the locality. The camp functioned from June 1941 until July 23rd, 1944. The contractors were the German firms ‘Schonbrunn’ from Leipzig, and ‘Schmidt- Münstermann; which

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    During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek. Little has

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    The Holocaust- Extermination camps The holocaust was a Genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborates killed about six million Jews. First they took them out of their homes and sent them to work camps and then after that to extermination camps. The concentration camps were designed to be a factory of death and no one was supposed to survive. Over all mostly Jews were sent there but politicians were also sent to the camps because they were seen as threats to Germany. The heart

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    The six death camps, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau were used to carry out the systematic mass murder of Jews as part of the Final Solution. First in gas vans, and later is gas chambers. Chelmno was the first extermination camp that the Germans established on Polish soil. Murder operations started December 8, 1941, and continued until January 1945. The Jews of the Lodz ghetto were deported to Chelmno, where they were murdered by means of gas vans. When

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    are divided into several concurrent series (Tagebuch, Abteilungsleitersitxungen etc.) covering several aspects of the authorized business of the administration. Frank however had first removed the utmost incriminating passages of the concentration camp system from his diary before handing it over and had burnt official documentation from his office in Cracow. Frank claimed whilst in prison he had experience a profound religious experience, which made him to repent his Nazi past. Frank was not charged

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    Auschwitz concentration camp was a chain of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in southern Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was originally created to serve as a detention centre for political prisoners, but it evolved into a network of camps consisting of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Auschwitz III–Monowitz, and 45 sub camps. Slide 2: The total death count at the three main Auschwitz camps was estimated by commissions

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