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Treblinka

American  
[tre-bleeng-kah, truh-bling-kuh] / trɛˈbliŋ kɑ, trəˈblɪŋ kə /

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.


Treblinka British  
/ trɛˈblɪŋkə /

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland, on the Bug River northeast of Warsaw: chiefly remembered as the place where the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto were put to death

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Polish President Andrzej Duda pledged that Poland could be entrusted to preserve the memory of the six death camps on its territory, at Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Chelmno.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

It’s instructive to remember that most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, perhaps 300,000 , were taken to Treblinka where they were murdered alongside another 500,000 or so Jews.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024

To better explain how this distortion works, consider this: Of the more than 900,000 Jews who arrived in Treblinka, fewer than 100 survived the war.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022

Sachsenhausen, opened in 1936 as one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps, acted as a training camp for SS guards who then went to serve in other camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2021

At Treblinka in August 1943, and at Sobibor in October 1943, small groups of Jews revolted.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

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