Treblinka – Nazi death camp
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5 – 6 hours. Price 850 zloty for up to 4 people. Pick-up at the hotel at 10:00. If there are more of you, we can hire a minibus or coach. Highly recommended for high schools visiting Warsaw.
800,000 people killed in genocide
Treblinka was the Nazi death camp in Poland during WWII. which saw the most people killed after Auschwitz-Birkenau. For a period of a year and a half, trains travelled almost daily from a special station in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw to Treblinka.
An scary efficiency
The camp can be compared to Auschwitz-Birkenau in murderous efficiency, but very little has been preserved. The vast majority of the camp consists of monuments, while the foundations are preserved in the labour camp Treblinka I.
More symbolic than Auschwitz
This means that things may not be displayed as directly as in Auschwitz or Stutthof, for example, but there is time for reflection on the deeds that were committed, and because there are not so many visitors, there is no need to be pushed forward. In other words, we can go in-depth with the topics.
Treblinka with me is the story of all the Nazi death camps in Poland
I see a trip to Treblinka as a story about all the Nazi death camps on Polish territory. We’re talking about:
How many camps there were
Who came to the camps
What was the concept of the Final Solution and how many people were murdered
Which groups came to the camps besides the Jews
Conditions for Jews in Poland before World War II
Jews and Poles in Poland during World War II – we’re talking about both the Poles helping their Jewish compatriots and cases of aggression by the Poles
The perception of WWII in Poland
The perception of the extermination of the Jews in Poland and the Polish shock over the book Neighbours from 2000
A long walk on uneven terrain
And then, of course, we walk through Treblinka. It’s a walk of around 8 kilometres on uneven terrain. We can walk at a leisurely pace, but it requires a certain level of physical fitness. You decide how long you want it to take – some do the trip in two hours, others take three hours.
5 – 6 hours in total
With 1 hour and fifteen minutes for transport each way, it’s around 5 hours, but just to be safe, we calculate up to 6 hours. On the way, we drive through lovely Polish villages and see horses, cows and sheep as well as village houses in different styles – once we leave the motorway.
Labour camp and death camp
In the camp we see Treblinka I – the labour camp and gravel pit where 20,000 people were worked to death. It was punitive labour and the conditions were brutal. Then we go to Treblinka II, the death camp where 800,000 people were systematically exterminated.
Write to me at m@hardenfelt.pl to arrange a guided tour in Warsaw/ out of Warsaw