Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Treblinka extermination camp, one of three such camps established under Operation Reinhard, was built in a sparsely populated area along the main railroad line between Warsaw and Bialystok. The camp was camouflaged in a forest and concealed from the surroundings. The construction work, begun in lateMay, was carried out by German companies that used Jewish and Polish forced labor. Giant burial pits were excavated on the camp´s grounds. The camp was built in the form of a rectangle, 600
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The great deportation from Warsaw began on Wednesday, July 22, 1942. Posters in the ghetto streets spelled out the deportation procedure and listed the persons who were to report: 70,000 of the 380,000 Jews in the ghetto. The first deportees were the most unfortunate and defenseless inhabitants-refugees, the elderly, and the homeless. The ghetto was panic-stricken; no one could say where the deportees were being taken. The chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat, Adam Czerniakow, committed suicide the next day, rather
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Adam Czerniakow refused to be the Germans´ lackey in the deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews. At 4:00 p.m. on July 23, he poisoned himself to death. According to one account, a note was found on his desk, addressed to his wife, stating, “They are demanding that I kill the children of my people with my own hands. There is nothing for me to do but die.” Czerniakow´s death stands as the protest of a Jewish leader and Judenrat chairman
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