Treblinka

[ tre-bleeng-kah; English truh-bling-kuh ]

noun

1. a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.

Treblinka

/ trɛˈblɪŋkə /

noun

1. a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland, on the Bug River northeast of Warsaw: chiefly remembered as the place where the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto were put to death

Example Sentences

It’s instructive to remember that most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, perhaps 300,000 , were taken to Treblinka where they were murdered alongside another 500,000 or so Jews.

From Los Angeles Times

Treblinka is now a vast field covered with a massive memorial consisting of hundreds of stones laid side by side, pointing heavenward.

From Los Angeles Times

The same day my family visited Treblinka, another Columbia student, described as a leader of the protests there, was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”

From Los Angeles Times

One shouldn’t have to go to places like Treblinka to be reminded of this.

From Los Angeles Times

“Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust at Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camps.”

From Seattle Times