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!

herefore in Treblinka alone, the amount of children that were murdered there by the Nazis can arguably be derived at between, 280,000 to 300,000 (Yes, three-hundred-thousand!).

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:

"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".

Guta and Abus Strawczynski

This is just a small testimony of the fate of two children of whom we have a names connected to innocent faces.
Think about the fact that most of these 300,000 had a family,
hopes and dreams for the future...
How many could have been teachers...? How many could have been artists...?
How many could have been musicians...?
How many could have been politicians...? How many could have been doctors...?
How many could have been fathers and mothers...
OR
how many could just have been a good friend!


Let us try and convey the cold statistic of an amount of 300,000 children
he 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,


imagine another one, Albert Wielkabroda:


and another two like them. . .Alinka Lilka and 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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Treblinka
by David Graham 1995


Europe's Young stir peacefully in sleep.
After praying to God for their souls to keep.
So tired after a sunny day of playing.
Now tucked to bed warm, after on knees, praying.

What a horrible thing - to awaken the next day.
To realize these things are now taken away.
Into ghettos they march - collective custody They lied.
And in the distance, Treblinka's mouth is opening wide.

Oh God in Heaven, show Us your great power!
Why must these little Ones plunge from Life's Tower?
To be rendered of their Souls by Treblinka's great might
In yellow sand they are buried - day and night.

Oh, Treblinka, Treblinka, Your jaws gape so wide -
The young lambs herd in, unaware of what's inside.
Run, little children...Run for your lives!
You've been brought to The Slaughterhouse - where no one survives.

It is easy to swallow these small ones whole -
Efficiently you render body from soul.
Straight from the trains - chased through your door...
As Warsaw is emptied, you strain for more.

Nothing stops you, Treblinka - hidden away in the woods.
As your yellow sand turns red with blood.
Is there anyone to stop this? Something must be done!
If You are not stopped, there will remain not one.

Treblinka you child-eater, your wheels spin and turn.
Your gears well-oiled, while the human soup is churned
A soup made of children who no longer run or play.
A bloody soup that is dumped into yellow sand and clay.

Dig pits in the sand - hidden beyond the trees -
Treblinka exists only if no one sees.
Covered over by Them, so that none would see The Place.
To hide what was done - there is scarecly a trace.

The Satanic Nazis smile, beckon & beguile.
Why - it is not so hard to fool a young child!
Could God really be giving these young ones up to die?
Innocent teary eyes look to their parents & say "G'Bye"

It would have been better had there never been a birth.
For these innocent eyes will never see life's worth.
Fate has chosen these little ones to die.
Many today still ask, "Why?"

We think it's all over - "...it is done, it is past"
We want to believe the children screamed their last.
But listen close, and you will hear the sound,
Of Treblinka's faint heartbeat, below the yellow ground.

In our weakness we call the madmen Them and They.
Are our souls so different & brave - that we'd have stood in the way?
So exalt not my friend, in a self-glorified stand....
For Treblinka sprang forth from the heart and mind of Man.

further on 'Aktion Reinhard' "Vernichtungslagern" http://www.deathcamps.org/