Event · Deportation
Train arrival at Majdanek
A train carrying Jewish women reached Majdanek instead of Treblinka.
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... As it turned out, this train never arrived at Treb-
linka but instead went to Majdanek, near Lublin. When
the car doors were opened in Lublin, a sea of blood
gushed forth. Even the Gestapo officers were taken
aback. Some of the women were only barely alive.
Berta Sokolska, a survivor, recounted this story to Dr.
Tuwja Cytron at the Blyzin concentration camp, and he
told it to me in April 1946 while he stayed in Bialystok.
The Gestapo did not interfere as Jewish slave laborers
administered first aid to these unfortunates. ...Connected nodes