This article presents the timeline of events at Treblinka extermination camp during the most deadly [1] [ not specific enough to verify ] phase of the Holocaust in World War II. [2] [3] [4] [5] All deportations were from German occupied Poland, except where noted. In most cases the number of deportees are not exact figures, but rather approximations.
Days are listed in chronological order, nevertheless, a number of dates are missing from the below tables which means only that no waybills survived for those particular dates. It does not mean that transports were not arriving or were not processed from layover yards, when applicable. [2]
Day # | Day of week | Date [2] | Number of deportees | Deported from | Cumulative total deportees | Known deportees | Major Events |
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Tuesday | July 7, 1942 | Commandant Irmfried Eberl writes to Heinz Auerswald that Treblinka will be ready to start operations on July 11, 1942. | |||||
1 | Wednesday | July 22, 1942 | 6,500 | Warsaw Ghetto | 6,500 | First deportation from Warsaw Ghetto. | |
2 | Thursday | July 23, 1942 | 7,300 | Warsaw | 13,800 | Leon Finkelstein | Treblinka becomes fully operational. |
3 | Friday | July 24, 1942 | 7,400 | Warsaw | 21,200 | ||
4 | Saturday | July 25, 1942 | 7,530 | Warsaw | 28,730 | ||
5 | Sunday | July 26, 1942 | 6,400 | Warsaw | 35,130 | ||
6 | Monday | July 27, 1942 | 6,320 | Warsaw | 41,450 | ||
7 | Tuesday | July 28, 1942 | 5,020 | Warsaw | 46,470 | ||
8 | Wednesday | July 29, 1942 | 5,480 | Warsaw | 51,950 | ||
9 | Thursday | July 30, 1942 | 6,430 | Warsaw | 58,380 | ||
10 | Friday | July 31, 1942 | 6,756 | Warsaw | 65,136 | ||
11 | Saturday | August 1, 1942 | 6,220 | Warsaw | 71,356 | ||
12 | Sunday | August 2, 1942 | 6,276 | Warsaw | 77,632 | ||
13 | Monday | August 3, 1942 | 6,458 | Warsaw | 84,090 | ||
14 | Tuesday | August 4, 1942 | 6,568 | Warsaw | 90,658 | ||
15 | Wednesday | August 5, 1942 | 6,623 | Warsaw | 97,281 | Hillel Zeitlin | |
15 | Wednesday | August 5, 1942 | 30,000 | Radom Ghetto | 127,281 | First train of ghetto liquidation action lasting for two weeks with cumulative number of victims. | |
16 | Thursday | August 6, 1942 | 10,085 | Warsaw | 137,366 | Janusz Korczak and 200 orphans | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 548; Warsaw – Treblinka. [6] [7] One of many: |
17 | Friday | August 7, 1942 | 10,672 | Warsaw | 148,038 | A German food giveaway creates a backlog at the loading ramp. Four transports in two days cannot accommodate all the people lining up at the Umschlagplatz (Warsaw Ghetto)''Umschlagplatz'' for the promised bread, some over several days, such was the hunger. [8] | |
18 | Saturday | August 8, 1942 | 7,304 | Warsaw | 155,342 | ||
19 | Sunday | August 9, 1942 | 6,292 | Warsaw | 161,634 | ||
20 | Monday | August 10, 1942 | 2,158 | Warsaw | 163,792 | ||
21 | Tuesday | August 11, 1942 | 7,725 | Warsaw | 171,517 | ||
22 | Wednesday | August 12, 1942 | 4,688 | Warsaw | 176,205 | Luba Lewin | |
23 | Thursday | August 13, 1942 | 4,313 | Warsaw | 180,518 | ||
24 | Friday | August 14, 1942 | 5,168 | Warsaw | 185,686 | Hanna Katznelson | |
25 | Saturday | August 15, 1942 | 3,633 | Warsaw | 189,319 | ||
26 | Sunday | August 16, 1942 | 4,095 | Warsaw | 193,414 | ||
27 | Monday | August 17, 1942 | 4,160 | Warsaw | 197,574 | ||
28 | Tuesday | August 18, 1942 | 3,926 | Warsaw | 201,500 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 4,000 | Warsaw | 205,500 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 6,500 | Falenica | 212,000 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 7,000 | Otwock | 219,000 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 1,800 | Rembertów | 220,800 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 3,000 | Jadwisin | 223,800 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 3,000 | Radzymin | 226,800 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 2,200 | Wołomin | 229,000 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 700 | Jadów | 229,700 | ||
29 | Wednesday | August 19, 1942 | 5,500 | Parczew | 235,200 | ||
30 | Thursday | August 20, 1942 | 4,000 | Warsaw | 239,200 | ||
30 | Thursday | August 20, 1942 | 21,000 | Kielce | 260,200 | ||
31 | Friday | August 21, 1942 | 3,000 | Warsaw | 263,200 | ||
31 | Friday | August 21, 1942 | 6,120 | Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto closure | 269,320 | ||
32 | Saturday | August 22, 1942 | 3,000 | Warsaw | 272,320 | ||
32 | Saturday | August 22, 1942 | 5,000 | Siedlce | 277,320 | ||
32 | Saturday | August 22, 1942 | 3,500 | Łosice | 280,820 | ||
32 | Saturday | August 22, 1942 | 3,800 | Mordy | 284,620 | ||
33 | Sunday | August 23, 1942 | 3,000 | Warsaw | 287,620 | Jankiel Wiernik | |
34 | Monday | August 24, 1942 | 3,000 | Warsaw | 290,620 | ||
35 | Tuesday | August 25, 1942 | 3,002 | Warsaw | 293,622 | Abraham Krzepicki | |
35 | Tuesday | August 25, 1942 | 11,000 | Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto | 304,622 | Abraham Goldfarb | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 562; Międzyrzec – Treblinka |
36 | Wednesday | August 26, 1942 | 3,000 | Warsaw | 307,622 | Odilo Globocnik, Christian Wirth and Josef Oberhauser visit Treblinka. Irmfried Eberl is relieved of command. | |
37 | Thursday | August 27, 1942 | 2,454 | Warsaw | 310,076 | 53,750 Warsaw Jews have been deported in the past 15 days. [9] | |
38 | Friday | August 28, 1942 | Unknown | Łuków | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 565; Łuków – Treblinka. Odilo Globocnik temporarily suspends deportations to Treblinka. The gas chambers have continually broken down and the burial pits are overflowing with bodies. The SS resorts to shooting incoming Jews in the arrival area of the camp and piling bodies throughout the camp. In August, Globocnik orders Franz Stangl, commandant of Sobibor, to replace Dr. Irmfried Eberl as commandant of Treblinka. Stangl restores order in the camp and supervises the building of new gas chambers, which are operational in early autumn 1942. Transports of Warsaw and Radom Jews begin to arrive again in September 1942. [10] | ||
41 | Monday | August 31, 1942 | Commandant Irmfried Eberl leaves Treblinka. | ||||
42 | Tuesday | September 1, 1942 | Franz Stangl becomes Commandant of Treblinka II. New, larger gas chambers have been erected to augment older chambers, and commence use. The new chambers are able to kill 12,000 to 15,000 victims every day, [11] with the maximum capacity of 22,000 executions in 24 hours. [12] | ||||
44 | Thursday | September 3, 1942 | 4,609 | Warsaw | 314,685 | Boris Weinberg | Warsaw deportations are restarted. New arrivals are processed the next morning. [13] |
45 | Friday | September 4, 1942 | 1,669 | Warsaw | 316,354 | Kalman and Tema Taigman [14] | |
47 | Sunday | September 6, 1942 | 3,634 | Warsaw | 319,988 | ||
48 | Monday | September 7, 1942 | 6,840 | Warsaw | 326,828 | ||
49 | Tuesday | September 8, 1942 | 13,596 | Warsaw | 340,424 | ||
50 | Wednesday | September 9, 1942 | 6,616 | Warsaw | 347,040 | ||
50 | Wednesday | September 9, 1942 | Unknown | Częstochowa Ghetto | Pinchas Epstein | ||
51 | Thursday | September 10, 1942 | 5,199 | Warsaw | 352,239 | ||
52 | Friday | September 11, 1942 | 5,000 | Warsaw | 357,239 | Jewish-Argentinian inmate Meir Berliner stabs SS-Oberscharführer Max Biala to death in a planned attack. Berliner is then executed by camp officers. | |
53 | Saturday | September 12, 1942 | 4,806 | Warsaw | 362,045 | Abraham Krzepicki escapes. | |
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 6,000 | Kałuszyn | 368,045 | ||
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 1,000 | Kołbiel | 369,045 | ||
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 1,000 | Mrozy/Kuflew | 370,045 | ||
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 700 | Siennica | 370,745 | ||
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 700 | Stanisławów | 371,445 | ||
56 | Tuesday | September 15, 1942 | 1,000? | Gniewoszów HMM | 372,445 | ||
57 | Wednesday | September 16, 1942 | 6,000 | Jędrzejów | 378,445 | ||
57 | Wednesday | September 16, 1942 | 1,000 | Sędziszów | 379,445 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 587; Sędziszów – Treblinka | |
57 | Wednesday | September 16, 1942 | 1,500 | Szczekociny | 380,945 | ||
57 | Wednesday | September 16, 1942 | 5,000 | Włoszczowa | 385,945 | ||
57 | Wednesday | September 16, 1942 | 3,000 | Wodzisław | 388,945 | ||
62 | Monday | September 21, 1942 | 2,196 | Warsaw | 391,141 | The last transport from the Polish capital. It includes Jewish police forced to help with deportations throughout Grossaktion Warsaw, and their families. [13] | |
62 | Monday | September 21, 1942 | 2,500 | Skarżysko-Kamienna | 393,641 | ||
62 | Monday | September 21, 1942 | 4,000 | Suchedniów | 397,641 | ||
62 | Monday | September 21, 1942 | sums to 40,000 | Częstochowa Ghetto | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 594; Częstochowa – Treblinka (one of many consecutive transports). The Ghetto clearing took place in three weeks between September 21, 1942, and October 8, 1942. Some 7,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka on this day. Members of the Judenrat were sent from Częstochowa on October 4, 1942 (see below). [15] | ||
63 | Tuesday | September 22, 1942 | 5,800 | Sokołów Podlaski | 403,441 | Itka Wlos | |
63 | Tuesday | September 22, 1942 | 8,300 | Węgrów | 411,741 | ||
63 | Tuesday | September 22, 1942 | 1,100 | Kosów Lacki | 412,841 | ||
63 | Tuesday | September 22, 1942 | 1,100 | Sterdyń | 413,941 | ||
63 | Tuesday | September 22, 1942 | 2,000 | Stoczek | 415,941 | ||
64 | Wednesday | September 23, 1942 | 10,000 | Szydłowiec | 425,941 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 587 (one of many) | |
67 | Saturday | September 26, 1942 | 5,000 | Siedlce | 430,941 | ||
67 | Saturday | September 26, 1942 | 4,800 | Biała Podlaska | 435,741 | ||
68 | Sunday | September 27, 1942 | 1,240 | Łaskarzew | 436,981 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 587 | |
68 | Sunday | September 27, 1942 | 13,000 | Kozienice | 449,981 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 587 | |
70 | Tuesday | September 29, 1942 | 10,000? | Zwoleń [16] | 459,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 2,000 | Busko-Zdrój | 461,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 8,000 | Chmielnik | 469,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 4,000 | Nowy Korczyn | 473,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 3,000 | Pacanów | 476,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 3,000 | Pińczów | 479,981 | ||
72 | Thursday | October 1, 1942 | 2,000 | Radzyń | 481,981 | ||
73 | Friday | October 2, 1942 | 3,440 | Parysów | 485,421 | ||
73 | Friday | October 2, 1942 | 3,680 | Sobienie-Jeziory | 489,101 | ||
73 | Friday | October 2, 1942 | 1,640 | Sobolew | 490,741 | ||
73 | Friday | October 2, 1942 | 10,000 | Żelechów | 500,741 | ||
75 | Sunday | October 4, 1942 | continuing | Częstochowa Ghetto | |||
76 | Monday | October 5, 1942 | 7,000 | Łuków | 507,741 | Transports unnumbered. Brothers Zygmunt & Oskar Strawczyński arrive from the Łódź Ghetto. Both escape successfully during the uprising; Oskar wrote down his groundbreaking Ten Months in Treblinka in 1943 while in hiding with the Polish rescuers. [17] [18] [19] | |
76 | Monday | October 5, 1942 | 1,000 | Terezín Ghetto, Czechoslovakia | 508,741 | ||
76 | Monday | October 5, 1942 | continuing | Częstochowa Ghetto | 548,741 | ||
77 | Tuesday | October 6, 1942 | 800 | Żarki | 549,541 | ||
77 | Tuesday | October 6, 1942 | Unknown | Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto | |||
78 | Wednesday | October 7, 1942 | 1,600 | Koniecpol | 551,141 | ||
78 | Wednesday | October 7, 1942 | 2,000 | Łagów | 553,141 | ||
79 | Thursday | October 8, 1942 | 1,000 | Terezín Ghetto, Czechoslovakia | 554,141 | Richard Glazar , Karl Unger , Rudolf Masarek | |
81 | Saturday | October 10, 1942 | 14,000 | Radomsko | 568,141 | ||
82 | Sunday | October 11, 1942 | 11,000 | Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski | 579,141 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 22,000 | Piotrków Ghetto | 601,141 | The "Aktion" at Piotrków lasted for eight days beginning October 14, 1942. The total of 22,000 prisoners were split into four transports which included Jews expelled to Piotrków from Kamieńsk, Przygłów, Sulejów, Srock, Tuszyn, Wolborz and Rozprza. They did not arrive at Treblinka in one day. Among them were Jews from Bełchatów, Kalisz, Gniezno and Płock also deported to Piotrków. [20] Old gas chambers cease operation and are replaced with new. Meanwhile, mass deportations from Bezirk Bialystok had just begun, and continue until February 19, 1943. In the next four months over 110,000 Jews from Bialystok General District (which includes Nazi counties of Bialystok Land, Bielsk, Grajewo, Grodno, Łomża, Sokółka, and Wolkowysk) are deported to Treblinka and annihilated. [21] | |
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 1,500 | Gozdowice, German Reich | 602,641 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 500 | Kamieńsk | 603,141 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 2,000 | Przygłów | 605,141 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 1,500 | Sulejów | 606,641 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 4,500 | Starachowice | 611,141 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 4,000 | Chotcza Nowa | 615,141 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 600 | Ciepielów | 615,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 2,000 | Iłża | 617,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 3,000 | Lipsko | 620,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 2,000 | Sienno | 622,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 7,000 | Tarłów | 629,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 4,000 | Wierzbnik, German Reich | 633,741 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 1,600 | Iwaniska | 635,341 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 3,300 | Ciechanowice, German Reich | 638,641 | ||
86 | Thursday | October 15, 1942 | 2,000 | Terezín Ghetto, Czechoslovakia | 640,641 | ||
90 | Monday | October 19, 1942 | 2,000 | Terezín Ghetto, Czechoslovakia | 642,641 | ||
91 | Tuesday | October 20, 1942 | 6,500 | Opatów Ghetto | 649,141 | Samuel Willenberg | |
92 | Wednesday | October 21, 1942 | Aron Gelbard escapes. | ||||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 15,000 | Tomaszów Mazowiecki | 664,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 4,000 | Biała Rawska | 668,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 2,000 | Orszewice | 670,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 3,000 | Koluszki | 673,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 3,000 | Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą | 676,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 3,000 | Opoczno | 679,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 4,000 | Przysucha | 683,141 | ||
93 | Thursday | October 22, 1942 | 2,000 | Terezín Ghetto, Czechoslovakia | 685,141 | ||
96 | Sunday | October 25, 1942 | 500 | Osiek | 685,641 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 4,000 | Rawa Mazowiecka | 689,641 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 2,000 | Żarnów | 691,641 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 800 | Ujazd, [22] German Reich | 692,441 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 900 | Ćmielów | 693,341 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 500 | Kunów | 693,841 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 1,600 | Koprzywnica | 695,441 | ||
102 | Saturday | October 31, 1942 | 4,500 | Ożarów | 699,941 | ||
104 | Monday | November 2, 1942 | 4,330 | Siemiatycze | 704,271 | ||
105 | Tuesday | November 3, 1942 | 9,000 | Końskie | 713,271 | ||
105 | Tuesday | November 3, 1942 | 1,000 | Gowarczów | 714,271 | ||
105 | Tuesday | November 3, 1942 | 4,000 | Radoszyce | 718,271 | ||
107 | Thursday | November 5, 1942 | 5,000 | Stopnica | 723,271 | ||
109 | Saturday | November 7, 1942 | 6,000 | Staszów | 729,271 | ||
109 | Saturday | November 7, 1942 | 3,000 | Łuków | 732,271 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,300 | Goniądz | 733,571 | Liquidation of Kielbasin Sammellagger transit camp outside Grodno in the Bezirk Bialystok District, commencing deportation action of up to 28,000 Jews expelled and imprisoned at Kielbasin from 22 surrounding cities and towns of the two sub-districts including Sokolka. The transports arriving at Treblinka started on November 10, 1942, and continued until December 15 for over a month (they did not arrive in one day). The Jews brought for gassing in trains from Kielbasin originated from the following settlements: Goniądz, Trzcianne, Augustów, Grajewo, Rajgród, Szczuczyn, Druskieniki, Jeziory, Lunna, Ostryna, Porzecze, Skidel, Sopockinie, Dąbrowa, Indura, Janow, Krynki, Kuźnica, Korycin, Odelsk, Sidra, Sokółka, Suchowola, and the Grodno Ghetto. Some 9,100 victims among them came from the Borgusze transit camp nearby. [23] [24] | |
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,200 | Trzcianne | 734,771 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,000 | Augustów | 736,771 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,500 | Grajewo | 739,271 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 600 | Rajgród | 739,871 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,500 | Szczuczyn | 741,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 500 | Druskininkai, now Lithuania | 741,871 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,000 | Jeziory | 743,871 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,500 | Lunna | 745,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,000 | Ostrynka | 747,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Porzecze | 748,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 3,000 | Skidal | 751,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,000 | Sapotskin, now Belarus | 753,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Dąbrowa Białostocka | 754,371 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 2,500 | Indura | 756,871 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 950 | Janów | 757,821 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 5,000 | Krynki | 762,821 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Kuźnica | 763,821 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Korycin | 764,821 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 500 | Odelsk | 765,321 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 350 | Sidra | 765,671 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 8,000 | Sokółka | 773,671 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 5,100 | Suchowola | 778,771 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,500 | Grodno Ghetto, now Belarus | 780,271 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 850 | Jałówka | 781,121 | Liquidation of Volkovysk transit camp. Deportation of up to 16,300 Jews imprisoned temporarily. Similar to the Sammellagger in Kielbasin, the transports began on November 10, 1942, and continued until December 15, 1942, for over a month (none of them arrived in one day). The Jews brought to Treblinka from Volkovysk camp originated from the ghettos in the following settlements: Jałówka, Lyskow, Mosty, Porozow, Roś, Różana, Swislocz, Wolkovysk, and Wolpa. [23] [24] [25] | |
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 600 | Lyskow | 781,721 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 350 | Mosty | 782,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Porozow | 783,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,000 | Ros | 784,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 3,000 | Różana | 787,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 3,000 | Svislach, now Belarus | 790,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 7,000 | Vawkavysk, now Belarus | 797,071 | ||
112 | Tuesday | November 10, 1942 | 1,500 | Wolfa | 798,571 | ||
117 | Sunday | November 15, 1942 | 1,000 | Gniewoszów | 799,571 | ||
122 | Friday | November 20, 1942 | 40 cars | Biala Podlaska | ? | From the communiqué published in January 1943 by the Office of Information of the underground Armia Krajowa, based on the observation of locked freight trains passing through with prisoners destined for Treblinka. Meanwhile, 35 cars with goods were sent to the Third Reich on the way back in five days. [3] | |
123 | Saturday | November 21, 1942 | 40 cars | Bialystok | ? | ||
124 | Sunday | November 22, 1942 | 40 cars | Bialystok | ? | ||
126 | Tuesday | November 24, 1942 | 40 cars | Grodno | ? | ||
132 | Monday | November 30, 1942 | 1,700 | Siedlce | 801,271 | ||
163 | Thursday | December 31, 1942 | According to the Höfle Telegram, the cumulative total of deportees to this date was 713,555, and 10,335 had been deported during the two weeks previous to this date. Substantial quantity of November deportations is not in the report. [3] | ||||
163 | Thursday | December 31, 1942 | Escape from the Totenlager (extermination area) via a tunnel. Only Lazar Sharson successfully escapes. | ||||
169 | Wednesday | January 6, 1943 | 4,000 | Radomsko | 805,271 | ||
173 | Sunday | January 10, 1943 | 6,000 | Sandomierz | 811,271 | ||
176 | Wednesday | January 13, 1943 | 1,500 | Radom Ghetto | 812,771 | ||
176 | Wednesday | January 13, 1943 | 5,000 | Szydłowiec | 817,771 | ||
181 | Monday | January 18, 1943 | 1,200 | Warsaw | 818,971 | ||
181 | Monday | January 18, 1943 | 1,600 | Grodno Ghetto, now Belarus | 820,571 | First stage of Grodno Ghetto liquidation under Kriminalkommissar Heinz Errelis who personally shoots at least 100. Over the course of 5 days, dubbed by the Jews "Operation 10,000" results in a total of some 10,000 Jews sent mostly to Auschwitz through Kielbasin Sammellagger transit camp nearby. [26] | |
182 | Tuesday | January 19, 1943 | 1,200 | Warsaw | 821,771 | ||
183 | Wednesday | January 20, 1943 | 1,200 | Warsaw | 822,971 | ||
184 | Thursday | January 21, 1943 | 1,200 | Warsaw | 824,171 | ||
185 | Friday | January 22, 1943 | 1,200 | Warsaw | 825,371 | ||
188 | Monday | January 25, 1943 | 2,120 | Jasionówka | 827,491 | ||
203 | Tuesday | February 9, 1943 | 10,000 | Białystok Ghetto | 837,491 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 552; Bialystok – Treblinka | |
208 | Sunday | February 14, 1943 | 4,400 | Grodno Ghetto, Belarus | 841,891 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 552; Grodno – Treblinka. Final liquidation of the Ghetto, dubbed "Operation 5,000." Victims are sent in three trains agreed on January 15, 1943, by Berlin. An additional train, Pj 165, leaves Grodno for Treblinka on February 16. [27] | |
244 | Thursday | March 11, 1943 | Bulgarian military and police authorities transfer 11,343 Jews from the Bulgarian-occupied Thrace, Macedonia and (Serbian) Pirot to German custody pursuant to a February agreement between the SS and representatives of the Bulgarian government. German SS and police officials deport these Jews to Treblinka, where almost all are gassed or shot upon arrival. [10] | ||||
244 | Monday | March 22, 1943 | 2,338 | Skopje, Bulgaria | 844,229 | ||
247 | Thursday | March 25, 1943 | 2,402 | Skopje, Bulgaria | 846,631 | ||
248 | Friday | March 26, 1943 | Fahrplananordnung Nr. 567; Transport from the Reich | ||||
250 | Sunday | March 28, 1943 | Telegramm; Transports from Bulgaria and Greece to Treblinka | ||||
251 | Monday | March 29, 1943 | 2,404 | Skopje, Bulgaria | 849,035 | ||
272 | Monday | April 19, 1943 | 7,000 | Warsaw | 856,035 | Result of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
283 | Friday | May 1, 1943 | Wegrów | Berek Lajcher, Treblinka revolt leader | Final Wegrów Ghetto liquidation | ||
377 | Monday | August 2, 1943 | Treblinka revolt erupts. Some 300 prisoners performing forced labor – aware that the SS will soon kill them – stage an uprising after the initial date of the revolt set for June 15 was postponed due to grenade detonation at the undressing area. Prisoners quietly seize weapons from the camp armory, set fire to barracks, and storm the main gate. Hundreds attempt to climb the barbed-wire fence, but the SS with Trawniki guards kill two-thirds of them with machine-gun fire. Less than a hundred escape successfully, chased in cars and on horses. Camp deportations and gassing operations halt the following month. [10] | ||||
393 | Wednesday | August 18, 1943 | Białystok Ghetto | Result of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising. [10] Fahrplananordnung Nr. 290; Bialystok – Treblinka. | |||
394 | Thursday | August 19, 1943 | 7,600 | Białystok Ghetto | 863,635+ | 7,600 over the two days. | Last Jewish transport to Treblinka. All of the deportees on the transport are killed upon arrival. [10] |
The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. The "Final Solution to the Jewish question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach, which was not restricted to the European continent. This policy of deliberate and systematic genocide starting across German-occupied Europe was formulated in procedural and geopolitical terms by Nazi leadership in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, and culminated in the Holocaust, which saw the murder of 90% of Polish Jews, and two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps, also called death camps, or killing centers, in Central Europe, primarily Occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust. The victims of death camps were primarily murdered by gassing, either in permanent installations constructed for this specific purpose, or by means of gas vans. The six extermination camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions were also murdered in concentration camps, in the Aktion T4, or directly on site.
Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp operated between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 as part of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Final Solution. During this time, it is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were murdered in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Romani people. More Jews were murdered at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution", the overall Nazi effort to complete the genocide of all European Jews. Before Germany's defeat put an end to this project more than six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust. The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of June 1943. It was situated about 500 m (1,600 ft) south of the local railroad station of Bełżec, in the new Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. The burning of exhumed corpses on five open-air grids and bone crushing continued until March 1943.
Operation Reinhard or Operation Reinhardt was the codename of the secret German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland. This deadliest phase of the Holocaust was marked by the introduction of extermination camps. The operation proceeded from March 1942 to November 1943; about 1.47 million or more Jews were murdered in just 100 days from late July to early November 1942, a rate which is approximately 83% higher than the commonly suggested figure for the kill rate in the Rwandan genocide. In the time frame of July to October 1942, the overall death toll, including all killings of Jews and not just Operation Reinhard, amounted to two million killed in those four months alone. It was the single fastest rate of genocidal killing in history.
Hermann Julius Höfle, also Hans (or) Hermann Hoefle, was an Austrian-born SS commander and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. He was deputy to Odilo Globočnik in the Aktion Reinhard program, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert. Arrested in 1961 in connection with these crimes, Höfle died via suicide by hanging in prison before he was tried.
Ferdinand August Friedrich von Sammern-Frankenegg was an Austrian SS functionary (Brigadeführer) during the Nazi era.
The Höfle telegram is a cryptic one-page document, discovered in 2000 among the declassified World War II archives of the Public Record Office in Kew, England. The document consists of several radio telegrams in translation, among them a top-secret message sent by SS Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle on 11 January 1943; one, to SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin, and one to SS Obersturmbannführer Franz Heim in German-occupied Kraków (Cracow).
The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews, simultaneously with other people groups for identical racial pretexts, in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany. Three million Polish Jews were murdered, primarily at the Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau extermination camps, representing half of all Jews murdered during the Europe-wide Holocaust.
Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
The Trawniki concentration camp was set up by Nazi Germany in the village of Trawniki about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Lublin during the occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout its existence the camp served a dual function. It was organized on the grounds of the former Polish sugar refinery of the Central Industrial Region, and subdivided into at least three distinct zones.
The Grossaktion Warsaw was the Nazi code name for the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto during the summer of 1942, beginning on 22 July. During the Grossaktion, Jews were terrorized in daily round-ups, marched through the ghetto, and assembled at the Umschlagplatz station square for what was called in the Nazi euphemistic jargon "resettlement to the East". From there, they were sent aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains to the extermination camp in Treblinka.
Richard Thomalla was a German war criminal and SS commander of Nazi Germany. A civil engineer by profession, he was head of the SS Central Building Administration at Lublin reservation in occupied Poland. Thomalla was in charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka during the Holocaust in Poland.
Johann Niemann was a German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who was deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. He also served as a Leichenverbrenner at Grafeneck, Brandenburg, and Bernburg during the Aktion T4, the SS "euthanasia" program. Niemann was killed during the Sobibor prisoner uprising in 1943.
Julian Chorążycki served as doctor-in-chief of the infantry regiment in the Polish Army during the reconstitution of sovereign Poland. In the interwar period, he was a throat surgeon practising in Warsaw. Born Jewish, Chorążycki spent two years in the Warsaw Ghetto. During the Holocaust in Poland he became the first leader of the perilous prisoner uprising at the Treblinka extermination camp. On August 2, 1943 – after the long period of preparation posing an immediate threat to life – an armed revolt in Treblinka erupted, however, Chorążycki killed himself on April 19, 1943, when faced with imminent capture, to avoid revealing details of the uprising and its participants under torture.
Berek Lajcher was a Jewish physician and social activist from Wyszków before the Holocaust in Poland, remembered for his leadership in the prisoner uprising at Treblinka extermination camp. More than 800,000 Jews, as well as unknown numbers of Romani people, were murdered at Treblinka in the course of Operation Reinhard in World War II.
SS-UnterscharführerWilli Bruno Mentz was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Mentz was known as "Frankenstein" at the camp.
During World War II, Trawniki men were Central and Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers or recruits from prisoner-of-war camps set up by Nazi Germany for Soviet Red Army soldiers captured in the border regions during Operation Barbarossa launched in June 1941. Thousands of these volunteers served in the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland until the end of World War II. Trawnikis belonged to a category of Hiwis, Nazi auxiliary forces recruited from native subjects serving in various jobs such as concentration camp guards.
By June 1942 the ghetto's population had increased to around 40–50,000.
Deportations ... were renewed on September 3, and the first transport arrived at the camp the following morning.
Kelbasin: November 10 – December 15, 1942 (38,900 victims)