Treblinka

On This Day: 79 years since Jews revolted at Nazi's Treblinka death camp

The revolt saw only a few Jews manage to escape the extermination camp, with only 70 surviving until the end of the war. But it crippled the camp in its final months.

|ByAARON REICH
Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.
Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.

On this day: Treblinka extermination camp uprising

On August 2, 1943, 78 years ago today, the prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp revolted, causing damage and allowing several hundred prisoners to escape.

|BySIMCHA PASKO
Album art by Amos Funk, elements courtesy of Sarah Aroeste

Sarah Aroeste revitalizes lost Jewish community using Sephardi music

In March 1943, Monastir’s Jews suffered genocide when the Nazis deported 98% of their people to Treblinka. None returned.

|ByMATT HANSON/JTA
The train station in Macedonia from where Jews were deported to Treblinka

Grapevine, August 5, 2020: Remembering Treblinka

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Only 2 survivors remain from Nazi camp Treblinka

Samuel Willenberg, Kalman Taigman are devoting their final years to trying to preserve the memory of 875,000 people systematically murdered.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010ByASSOCIATED PRESS
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Holocaust-denier Irving to lead tours of death camps

British revisionist historian scheduled to take a tour to concentration camps and former site of Warsaw Ghetto.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010ByJONNY PAUL
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Attorney fears Demjanjuk worsening

AP learns 90-year-old autoworker's bone marrow disease degenerating.

MAY 20, 2010ByASSOCIATED PRESS
Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.

Investigator: Evidence shows Demjanjuk at Sobibor

Defense attorney: The paperwork "doesn't matter at all...It doesn't show that he was in the death camp."

FEBRUARY 3, 2010ByASSOCIATED PRESS
Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.