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Treblinka

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Treblinka [trɛˈblɪŋkə]
n
(Placename) a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland, on the Bug River northeast of Warsaw: chiefly remembered as the place where the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto were put to death


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Most of the rest were sent to the Treblinka death camp in northeast Poland in mass deportations in 1942.
Jews launched a doomed uprising against the Nazis in April 1943 as the German occupiers began liquidating the ghetto where just 60,000 people remained after the vast majority of Jews imprisoned there were sent to be killed at the Treblinka death camp.
1988 An Israeli court ruled that US car worker John Demjanjuk was a guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp during World War II.
 
 
 
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