Furnace and chimney at Treblinka extermination camp
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Date
1943
Description
SS men and nurses watching an old furnace and chimney in Treblinka extermination camp being destroyed. Treblinka was one of three killing centers linked to Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to murder almost two million Jews living in the German-administered territory of occupied Poland, called the General Government. This photograph was discovered by German investigators in the flat of Kurt Franz, former Deputy Commandant of Treblinka, in 1959 at the time of his arrest. It belongs to an album that Franz titled Schöne Zeiten [Good Times]. It was later presented by the prosecution as evidence during the Treblinka Trial in 1965
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
Identifer
1448
Source
Yad Vashem, courtesy of Justizverwaltung des Landes Nordrhein- Westfalen. Photograph by Kurt Franz
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