Treblinka Research Paper

Nearly a million or more Jews were exterminated by the ovens of Treblinka by August 1943. The Holocaust was a standardized state-sponsored imprisonment and murder of over six million Jews. The Nazis who came to power in Germany in January 1933 believed that Germans were "racially superior". Though very few prisoners survived this time, those few survivors bared witness to man’s courage in the face of the greatest evil human history has ever produced. The conditions and treatment given to the prisoners of the Holocaust are some of the most painful, critical, and disturbing time periods throughout the world.

Even though most everyone knows how bad these camps were, no one can really imagine these places of hell. Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec were the three death camps under the Operation Reinhard. Treblinka was built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It operated between July 1942 until October 1943. The camp was surrounded by a high barbed wire fence camouflaged by brush to hide what was happening inside the fence. Watchtowers were added around the camp. Treblinka I was a labor camp where the hostages worked in the gravel pit and irrigation areas where they cut wood for the
Treblinka was the pit of hell; a place of mass extermination. The “punishments” they faced were critical. The living circumstances made it close to impossible to survive. If one did survive it wasn’t considered a lucky thing every prisoner would still live with the pain and memories for the rest of their life. Treblinka was finally closed in November 1943. In post-war Poland, the government bought most of the land where the camps had stood and built a large stone memorial there between 1959 and 1962. It was declared a National Monument of Jewish martyrology. This National Monument still stands today in loving memory of any prisoner that fought to stay