Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. In 1984 it had 330 inhabitants. Masovian voivodship since 1999 The Masovian Voivodship (in Polish województwo mazowieckie) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodships created in 1999. ... A Voivodship ( Romanian: Voievodat, Polish: Województwo, Serbian: Vojvodstvo or Vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During World War II, Nazis organized the Treblinka extermination camp in the neighbourhood of the village. The camp was opened on July 23, 1942. The majority of the Jews killed here were from the great Jewish community of Warsaw. Estimates of the number of people killed there range from 700,000 to 1,400,000 with over 5,000 sent daily to die in Treblinka from Warsaw alone. The Treblinka death camp was one of three operating in Eastern Poland during a phase of systematic extermination named Operation Reinhard (named for Reich Security chief Reinhard Heydrich). In addition to Treblinka were the camps of Sobibor and Belzec, but Treblinka is most notorious for murdering the most people. Like all of these camps, Treblinka was organized into two sections, termed the "upper camp" and the "lower camp". The "lower camp" contained quarters for SS men and Ukranian guards, as well as buildings and an open plaza for the sorting of victims' belongings. A narrow fenced-in passageway - called "the tube" or "the road to heaven" - led to the "upper camp" which contained the gas chambers and large open grills for cremating bodies. Treblinka is also noted for an uprising that took place there on August 2, 1943. On that day prisoners in the camp attacked there captors and managed to kill or wound a number of them and set fire to the camp. Approximately 60-80 prisoners remained free until the liberation of Poland. Partial bibliography: Arad, Yitzhak. Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Glazar, Richard. Trap with a Green Fence. Klee, Dressen and Riess. The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders. Lifton, Robert. The Nazi Doctors (includes material about I. Eberl, Treblinka's first commandant). MacMillan, Ian. Village of a Million Spirits (an historical novel, but excellently researched). Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness (Prison interviews with F. Stangl, Treblinka's second commandant). Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... A memorial built on the site of Treblinka. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ...

Treblinka was the name of a Swedish punk rock band. The name was chosen for its shock value, but the band itself never had any connections with Nazis and never backed their ideology. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...