Selected to live - in Treblinka
7th October 1942: As they murder hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Nazis employ a small army of slaves to comb through mountains of their possessions
The ‘death camp’ or killing centre of Treblinka operated with relatively few staff considering the vast numbers of people who were murdered within it. The SS staff of 20-30 were assisted by around 120 ‘Trawniki men’ - former Soviet POWs, mainly Ukrainains, who had ‘volunteered’ to work with the Nazis. They had been trained at the SS centre at Trawniki …
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