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

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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