The Final Solution at Treblinka
by The final solution in Poland was Treblinka, a death camp set up to exterminate all the Jews. 67 imprisoned Jews escaped out of the hundreds held in the death camp. They lived to tell the story. Kalman Taigman and Samuel Willenburg are the two last survivors. They are determined that the world not forget Treblinka and all the families who died there. The Nazi killing machine went on a killing spree during World War 11 that murdered 875,000 people, almost all of them Jews. These two men are the final link to the most notorious death camp known to history.
The Final Solution at Treblinka
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman are believed to be the last two survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland. Both men are 87 years old and are devoted to preserving the memory of the 875,000 people sacrificed to the efficient killing machine of the Nazi holocaust. Only 67 holocaust prisoners are known to have survived the Nazi killers at Treblinka. It was a one year killing spree at the height of World War 11 and most of the murdered were Jews. The two men are the only links left to one of the most notorious and blood thirsty killing machines in history.
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At Treblinka only the young and strong were spared a quick trip to the gas chambers and assigned to work instead. Willenberg and Taigman were both young strong men of twenty. An uprising at the camp began Aug. 2, 1943 when a group set fire to the camp and ran into the woods. Hundreds fled but most were shot and killed by Nazi soldiers, others were captured by Polish villagers who were Nazi sympathizers and the prisioners were returned to Treblinka.
Willenburg was shot in the leg as he climbed over the bodies piled by the barbed wire fence and vaulted over. His blue eyes and non-Jewish appearance allowed him to survive in the woods and fields and get to Warsaw where he joined the Polish underground.
Nazis and their collaborators murdered about 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. “It was hell, absolutely hell,” said Taigman. “A normal man cannot imagine how a living person could have lived through it, natural born killers without a trace of remorse just murdered everything little thing.”
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When the war ended the Nazis destroyed Treblinka and other death camps trying to cover up the horror of what they were doing. Along with Belzec and Sobibor camps, Treblinka was designed to exterminate the Jews, and of the three was the most deadly. “the world cannot forget Treblinka,” said Willenberg.
David Silberklang, a senior historian at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, said that in contrast to other camps where Jews were also used for industrial labor, Treblinka truly represented the essence of the Nazi final solution.
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Post Commentpattiann
On November 3, 2010 at 1:31 am
The Holocaust is so sad. I’m happy that my family got out of Poland before this happened. We aren’t Jewish, but would feel horrible.
ishinimrod
On November 3, 2010 at 1:52 am
Very nice article. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up!
Kopykween
On November 3, 2010 at 1:54 am
really horrid. How people can do something this horrific is beyond me.
pearl2010
On November 3, 2010 at 2:25 am
Never know this.Thanks for sharing Ruby.
vijayanths
On November 3, 2010 at 2:35 am
nice share.
Hendrik
On November 3, 2010 at 2:39 am
Very good.
Catherine South
On November 3, 2010 at 3:02 am
There’s an interesting book by Viktor Frankl, Man’s search for Meaning. The book is based on his experiences in camps likes these, and the will of man to survive in such an environment.
Rehoboth
On November 3, 2010 at 3:34 am
$nice post$
SharifaMcFarlane
On November 3, 2010 at 4:03 am
People will survive the hateful actions of others.
Christine Ramsay
On November 3, 2010 at 4:33 am
How these people suffered! There was so much cruelty back then. A good reminder of the horrrors of war.
Christine
ashucharu
On November 3, 2010 at 7:14 am
a good post…
MaxBuceo
On November 3, 2010 at 8:08 am
Interesting post. I like it
strategy03
On November 3, 2010 at 8:56 am
Great writing. I like this
Phoenix Montoya
On November 3, 2010 at 9:19 am
Sad casualties of war. A good reminder ma’am.
awesome11
On November 3, 2010 at 10:43 am
great share! thanks!
PR Mace
On November 3, 2010 at 11:37 am
What a horrible ordeal. Well done story.
Jimmy Shilaho
On November 3, 2010 at 11:52 am
No punishment is enough for such cruelty.
Sangeeta Chaudhary
On November 3, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Very sad and cruel.
Brenda Nelson
On November 3, 2010 at 2:47 pm
lucky 67 to escape and talk about it. I bet some of them felt guilty for getting out though.. and leaving others behind.
Bruce Officer
On November 3, 2010 at 5:31 pm
I shudder to think how people can do this to other human beings. Absolutely dreadful. But we must remember, because it is something dark in humanity that could rise again behind the closed doors of camps if not watched for.
Moses Ingram
On November 3, 2010 at 6:44 pm
When will we learn to live by the golden rule? Good share.
D51208
On November 3, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I have seen stuff like this at least a hundred times. Every time fills with me with disgust and anger, how could they do that to people??? Good share.
Shirley Shuler
On November 3, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Great share, Ruby. It’s so sad to think that people could be so cruel.
albert1jemi
On November 3, 2010 at 8:41 pm
great share
LCM Linda
On November 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm
That’s bloody and insane. Great share.
Tulan
On November 7, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I have read so many of these stories and seen pictures that keep me from ever sleeping good. How can people commit such atrocities? It’s beyond my imagination.