Treblinka

American  

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

noun

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

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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

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Example Sentences

When Polish Jewish conductor and composer Artur Gold arrived at Treblinka in 1942, Kurt Franz—a brutal SS commander known for unleashing his large dog on prisoners—made sure that “the famous musician be given what he needed to assemble an orchestra befitting his reputation,” Mr. Lotoro says.

From The Wall Street Journal

"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

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.

From BBC

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

I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of schoolchildren about the Treblinka-2 extermination camp.

From BBC