Treblinka

[tre-bleeng-kah, truh-bling-kuh]

noun

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

Treblinka

/ 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

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He finds the complexity of human beings "fascinating... I mean, how can you produce Beethoven, Bach and then Treblinka and Auschwitz?"

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They were put on a train to the Treblinka extermination camp.

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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.

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Other camps further east, like the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, had either been destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet advances or emptied of their inmates.

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If the Trump administration actually builds the detention camp in Guantanamo, it’ll double in size Auschwitz-Birkenau’s original design and be bigger than Dachau and Treblinka combined.

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