Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka

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The Treblinka work camp operated from the summer of 1941, through July 1944. In these 3 years, it’s estimated that over 20,000 prisoners were sent through the camp, half of which died working in the gravel pits or embankments, or were executed. on July 23, 1942, as part of the Reinhard Operation, Treblinka II, the extermination camp received its first transport from the Warsaw Ghetto arrived. Over the next two years, over 800,000 people were executed in gas chambers and cremated. The labour camp was dismantled during the war following an armed insurrection on August 2nd 1943, when approximately 200 of the camp’s 840 prisoners were able to escape. Today, the 17,000 boulders stand as a symbolic cemetery to the hundreds of thousands killed on the site, while the museum houses a permanent exhibition depicting the history of the camps.