Events

In 1942-1943, Germans murdered in Treblinka nearly 900,000 Jews from occupied Poland and other European countries. The first victims were almost 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, who we honor during the annual 22 July 1942 March of Remembrance, organized in Warsaw by the JHI. On August 2, 1943, members of the Sonderkommando – a unit of Jewish prisoners forced to work in the camp – started a rebellion which was aimed at destroying Treblinka, killing SS officers and saving their own lives to tell the world about the Holocaust.

Of more than 700 prisoners who had taken part in the August 2, 1943 revolt, around 200 managed to escape the camp, and about a hundred survived until the end of the war. Treblinka was almost completely burned down. After the revolt, Germans began liquidating the camp, took down all the buildings and constructions, ploughed the site and planted lupin everywhere so that there would be no sign of one of the worst crimes in history.

The commemorations will take place on August 2 at noon in Treblinka Museum. The Nazi German Extermination and Forced Labor Camp (1941-1944). Representatives of the national and local government and members of the diplomatic corps and clergy will give speeches and prayers and lay wreaths by the Monument of the Death Camp Victims.

The commemoration will take place on August 2, 2023 at 12 p.m. in front of the monument in the central memorial site of the Treblinka Museum – the German Nazi extermination camp and labour camp (1941-1944).

The Jewish Historical Institute is organising bus transfers from Warsaw to the Treblinka Museum in Wólka Okrąglik. If you would be interested to use the transport, please contact us. NOTE: Registration for the transportation to the ceremony has been completed.

We are planning to leave Warsaw (Plac Bankowy) at 9 am, departure from Treblinka Museum is planned for 3:30 pm.

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Organizers: 

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Treblinka Museum. The Nazi German Extermination and Forced Labor Camp (1941-1944)

Honorary Patronage of President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda

Partners:

World Jewish Congress
Simon Wiesenthal Center