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OCR: Trebiinka was Nazi labor camp and death camp. located about 62 miies northeast of Warsaw Poland Starting in July 1942 approximately 870,000 people were kilied in Treblinka's three iarge carbon monoxide gas chambers and buried in its massive burial pits. These people came mostly from Poiand Austria Slovakia, and Yugoslavi ian Macedonia Paula's sisters were deported Trebiinka from the Ostrowiec Ghetto on August 1943 Jewish prisoners carried out a rebellion at Treblinka The prisoners shot an officer and some Ukrainian guards, and set much of the camp on fire before the authorities regained control Most of the 750 prisoners who tried to escape during this revoit were kilied or recaptured The SS forced the surviving inmates Trebiinka to dismantie the camp and remove all traces of the killing Op ...