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Treblinka

[ tre-bleeng-kah; English truh-bling-kuh ]

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.


Treblinka

/ ٰɛˈɪŋə /

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other camps further east, like the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, had either been destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet advances or emptied of their inmates.

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If the Trump administration actually builds the detention camp in Guantanamo, it’ll double in size Auschwitz-Birkenau’s original design and be bigger than Dachau and Treblinka combined.

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Polish President Andrzej Duda pledged that Poland could be entrusted to preserve the memory of the six death camps on its territory, at Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Chelmno.

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I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of schoolchildren about the Treblinka-2 extermination camp.

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"Treblinka-2 was a death camp where a large number of people were killed in gas chambers," she says, without specifying that most of the victims had been Jews.

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