Treblinka's Small Victims

The racist murder of the innocent victims knew no bounds and if anyone was ever more an innocent victim, then it was the children who were sent to Treblinka. The official figure of victims killed at this camp is between 850,000 - 900,000, of which this total, children made up at least one third!

Most of these children went through a fate very similar to the two children, Guta and Abus, of survivor Strawczynski, of whom he describes the following:

Guta and Abus Strawczynski

"Although utterly exhausted after twenty-four hours in the tightly packed cattle cars, we shivered with terror when the train stopped and we heard frightful shouts: "Out, Out..." Whips fly over our heads... In the eyes of my wife I recognize that finally even she has begun to believe the horrible rumours about the gas factory beyond Malkinia. I can see that now she regrets not having agreed to my plan to hide with the children in our neighbour's hideout. We run out as fast as we can to avoid the whips lashing overhead, and find ourselves on a long, narrow platform, crowded to capacity. All familiar faces-neighbours and acquaintances. A smell of charred flesh stifles the breath. Unwittingly, I catch a glimpse of the mountains of clothing, shoes, bedding and all kinds of wares that can be seen over the fence. The dense mass of people is pushed toward and jammed through a gate... Down this Alley, completely naked, they took their last walk-my dear wife and children, father, mother, brothers and sisters, together with millions of Jewish men and women... They never came out of the "bath". [Strawczynski]

The following are all pictures of children who were murdered at Treblinka by the Nazis.
[Photo credits to: Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz, and Simon Wiesenthal website from where these photos were obtained.]

Imagine two children like Guta and Abus Strawczynski,

Guta Strawczynski	Abus Strawczynski

imagine another one,

Albert Wielkabroda

and another two like them. . .

Alinka Lilka	Chaskell Wollmana

So we have five out of the 300,000 children that were murdered.

Imagine another five children,

Eliezer (Lolek) Reiss	Helena Weissblatt	Luba Murzan - Sztroman	Naomi Posinova	Natus Weissblatt

This amounts to ten out of 300,000 children that were murdered.

Imagine another five children?

Sorela Goldsobel	Stella Klingerova	Yezik Wielkabroda	unknown girl	unknown boy

Now we have fifteen of the 300,000 children that were murdered.

Now add another 15 children:

15 children [A section of a group photo] who came from the Janusz Korczak Orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto

This amounts now to thirty of 300,000 children that were murdered.

multiply this group of 30 innocent children with 10,000.
This will amount to the statistical sum of 300,000 children
that were murdered at Treblinka... by the Nazis!


No children survived Treblinka as they were immediately sent to their death, either being shot at the "Lazarett" (the execution pit disguised as a field hospital) or together with the adults in the gas chambers. In the gas chambers they went through a particular horrifying death, as the children were usually the last to die, as due to the fact that youngsters' blood contain more oxygen. According to eyewitness accounts, some children survived the painful ordeal in the gas chambers, but no mercy was shown as the Nazis shot them in the head.



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