Treblinka
[ tre-bleeng-kah; English truh-bling-kuh ]
/ trɛˈbliŋ kɑ; English trəˈblɪŋ kə /
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noun
a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
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How to use Treblinka in a sentence
His mother and three sisters had been sent to Treblinka where they all perished.
The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto|The Telegraph|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEASTAs such, 33,000 inmates died there, compared to a million at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 870,000 in Treblinka, or 600,000 in Belzec.
Confessions of a Death Camp Collaborator: Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’|Jimmy So|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEASTThey were all supposed to go to the gas chambers at Treblinka, but that camp had already closed.
By the summer of l942, the Allies and most of the world knew that the Nazis were gassing Jews in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
British Dictionary definitions for Treblinka
Treblinka
/ (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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