265,000 Jews were taking to the Treblinka concentration camp. During the Holocaust many Jews were taken to concentration camps. One of the worst camps was the Treblinka camp. The commander of this camp was Franz Stangl. This camp was located 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, Poland. Women and children were together,men were separated from the women and children.
When people got to camp the men were separated from the women and children. The people that couldn’t walk or were sick got shot. Then they were told that they were that they were being taken to bathe. They really were being taken to be killed by a gas. Sometimes the gas took longer to spread because the chamber was packed with slaves. Jews from the Polish Districts of Warsaw, Radom, Bialystok …show more content…
Afterwards they too were shot, and a farm was built on the site of the extermination "And now I want to tell you, I want to tell you about the thing...the gas chamber. It was, they ask me already about this thing. The gas chamber, how it looked. Very simple. Was all concrete. There was no window. There was nothing in it. Beside, on top of you, there was wires, and it looked like, you know, the water going to come out from it. Had two doors. Steel doors. From one side and from the other side. The people went into the gas chamber from the one side. Like myself, I was in it, doing the job as a barber. When it was full the gas chamber--the size of it was...I would say 18 by 18, or 18 by 17, I didn't measure that time, just a look like I would say I look here the room around, I wouldn't say exactly how big it is. And they pushed in as many as they could. It was not allowed to have the people standing up with their hands down because there is not enough room, but when people raised their hand like that there was more room to each other. And on top of that they throw in kids, 2, 3, 4 years old kids, on top of them. And we came out. The whole thing it took I would say between five and seven minute. The door opened up, not from the side they went in but the side from the other side and from the other side the...the
When people got to camp the men were separated from the women and children. The people that couldn’t walk or were sick got shot. Then they were told that they were that they were being taken to bathe. They really were being taken to be killed by a gas. Sometimes the gas took longer to spread because the chamber was packed with slaves. Jews from the Polish Districts of Warsaw, Radom, Bialystok …show more content…
Afterwards they too were shot, and a farm was built on the site of the extermination "And now I want to tell you, I want to tell you about the thing...the gas chamber. It was, they ask me already about this thing. The gas chamber, how it looked. Very simple. Was all concrete. There was no window. There was nothing in it. Beside, on top of you, there was wires, and it looked like, you know, the water going to come out from it. Had two doors. Steel doors. From one side and from the other side. The people went into the gas chamber from the one side. Like myself, I was in it, doing the job as a barber. When it was full the gas chamber--the size of it was...I would say 18 by 18, or 18 by 17, I didn't measure that time, just a look like I would say I look here the room around, I wouldn't say exactly how big it is. And they pushed in as many as they could. It was not allowed to have the people standing up with their hands down because there is not enough room, but when people raised their hand like that there was more room to each other. And on top of that they throw in kids, 2, 3, 4 years old kids, on top of them. And we came out. The whole thing it took I would say between five and seven minute. The door opened up, not from the side they went in but the side from the other side and from the other side the...the