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TREBLINKA
From July 1942 through September 1943, Treblinka operated as an extermination camp. The facility was built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka, northeast of Warsaw. The camp consisted of Treblinka I and Treblinka II. Treblinka I was a forced labor Arbeitslager, where more than half of its 20,000 inmates died from summary executions, hunger, disease, and mistreatment. Treblinka II was designed as a death factory where the Germans killed approximately 870,000 Jews, making it the deadliest of all the extermination camps in the Operation Reinhard effort.
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Irving Roth enters the memorial to the victims of the Treblinka death camp located in northeastern Poland.
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