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

His father died in Auschwitz, and his brother died in the Treblinka extermination camp.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2023

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

She tells me about reading Gitta Sereny’s “Into That Darkness,” a book based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2020

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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