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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Treblinka - mechanized slaugherhouse
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.120103.24322@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 12:01:03 GMT
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Kori,Treblinka,Warsaw
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- "Treblinka, sixty miles northeast of Warsaw, was set down in a dense pine
- forest, isolated by a nine-foot electrified barbed wire fence. It was hard
- to imagine that behind the always freshly painted railway station, adorned
- with geraniums in neat window boxes, a death toll of 840,000 was being
- exacted, using highly mechanized extermination techniques. No planes,
- friendly or otherwise, were permitted to fly over it or near it. There were
- two camps. Treblinka I, created in 1941, was used to punish political
- prisoners who were assigned slave labor duties as part of their
- `regeneration.' The Poles among them were usually released when their terms
- of punishment were completed. The Jews were either worked to death or
- transferred to Treblinka II, which became on of the main Nazi murder
- centers. At Treblinka II, 300,000 Jews, uprooted from Warsaw, were executed
- during the three summer months of 1942.<12> The historian of the Warsaw
- Ghetto uprising, Emmanuel Ringelblum, referred to it in his diary notes as
- `the slaughter house of European Jewry.'
-
- The term `mechanized' for Treblinka must be taken literally. The technical
- appointments of its gas chambers and crematoria were unsurpassed until Hoess
- added refinements at Auschwitz that won back for that camp the trophy for
- lethal ingenuity. The enterprising directory of the C.N. Kori Company, when
- he submitted the bid for equipment at bargain prices, boasted: `We guarantee
- the effectiveness of the crematoria ovens as well as their durability, the
- use of the best materials and of course, our faultless workmanship.'<13>
-
- <12> Statistics cited by Yehuda Bauer in "A History of the Holocaust" p.209
- <13> Testimony at Nuremberg Military Tribunal Trial, cited in William
- Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp.971-973
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St.
- Martin's/Marek, 1983.
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-
- For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over
- 1100 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you
- by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.
-
- A recent copy of our Almanac Holocaust files may be obtained via anonymous
- ftp from menora.weizmann.ac.il, as /pub/texts/oneb-txt.tar.Z - If you do not
- have ftp access, I'd be happy to send the collection to you as uuencoded
- email. Please specify *.ZIP or compressed tar format. knm.
- --
- "THIRTEEN TRANSPORTS, comprising 13,000 Jews, were sent from Theresienstadt
- to ghettos of the Lublin district between March 12 and June 13, 1942. At
- least 6,000 of these Jews were murdered in Sobibor and about 7,000 in
- Belzec." (Testimony of Yehuda Lerner)
-