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Treblinka

American

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

noun

a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.

Treblinka British

/ trɛˈblɪŋkə /

noun

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

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"When we left on the train to Treblinka, I was sure that my life was over," he told The Jerusalem Post earlier this year.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

Treblinka is now a vast field covered with a massive memorial consisting of hundreds of stones laid side by side, pointing heavenward.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024

In the vicinity of Treblinka in the past several years, the Pilecki Institute has erected no fewer than 10 other monuments to celebrate brave Poles who died giving assistance to Jews.

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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