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80th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto in Kosów Lacki
8 February 2023
On February 5 afternoon, the ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto in Kosów Lacki was...
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
8 February 2023
On January 27, on International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the management of the Treblin...
The Museum closed on January 21, 2023
21 January 2023
ATTENTION On January 21 (Saturday) the Treblinka Museum is closed for the safety of the visitors. The area of the Museum inc...
Treblinka Museum opening hours in days 24.12.2022 – 01.01.2023
22 December 2022
We would like to inform that on December 24 and 31, 2022 the Treblinka Museum will be available to visitors from 9.00 a.m. to...
Delegation of the Treblinka Museum in Saxony-Anhalt
23 November 2022
Last week, as part of Polish-German cooperation, employees of the Treblinka Museum, headed by Director Edward Kopówka, visit...
German version of the application about the Treblinka II Extermination Camp
23 November 2022
The "Memory of Treblinka" Foundation and the Janusz Korczak school in Halle, Germany, in cooperation with the Jewish Historic...
Information on November 1, 2022
31 October 2022
Dear visitors,We would like to inform that on 01/11/2022 the exhibition in the Treblinka Museum building will be closed. The ...
16 new memory trees have been planted in the Korczak Forest
27 October 2022
On October 21, the Museum Treblinka hosted the participants of the International Korczak Conference “Janusz Korczak and the...
The Treblinka Museum has received the Janusz Korczak award
26 October 2022
On October 20, 2022, the International Korczak Conference “Janusz Korczak and the children. Lesson of the past and hope. 80...
The delegation of the Treblinka Museum at the premiere of the film “Bez prawa do życia” at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
24 October 2022
On October 19, 2022, the employees of the Treblinka Museum took part in the official premiere of the film directed by Waldema...
September 3, 2022 – Patriotic and religious ceremony at the Execution Site
9 September 2022
Traditionally, on the first Saturday of September, patriotic and religious ceremony in honour of the Victims of the Treblinka...
On August 4, the Treblinka Museum was visited by Ike Alterman – Holocaust Survivor, his family and Caroline Sturdy Colls
9 September 2022
On August 4, the Treblinka Museum was visited by the Holocaust Survivor Ike Alterman from Ożarów. During World War II, Mr. ...
Camps
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Treblinka II
The Treblinka extermination camp (centre) was built by the Germans in mid-1942 next to a nearby penal labour camp. It was established as a part of Operation Reinhard, the goal of which was to eliminate the Jewish population. It covered an area of 17 hectares and was surrounded by a high barbed wire fence. The camp was operated by a command staff of 30-40 Germans and Austrians who were assisted by around 100-120 guards, mainly Ukrainians. Doctor of medicine Irmfried Eberl became the first command...
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Treblinka I
Penal Labour Camp functioned from the summer of 1941 to the end of July 1944. The initiator and organizer was the county staroste in Sokołów Podlaski, Ernst Gramss. The commandant of the camp throughout the entire period was Theo van Eupen. German service consisted of about 20 people. They had help from a group of guards (about 100 people) – mainly Ukrainians. Over 20,000 prisoners went through the camp, of which about 10,000 died or were shot....
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