Treblinka

German extermination camp 80 km/50 mi northwest of Warsaw. About 800,000 prisoners were killed here before a mass escape took place April 1943 in which many of the SS guards were killed by the inmates. After severe reprisals the camp was closed down and dismantled in November 1943.

Originally built 1940 as a forced labour camp for political prisoners, from June 1941 it was rebuilt and had gas chambers and crematoria installed, and by the summer of 1942 was receiving shipments of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto.