Event · Deportation
Train cars separated at Malkin
At Malkin, rear cars carrying unsuitable workers were uncoupled and sent to Treblinka.
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... At the railroad station in Malkin, the train
stopped, because Malkin was the way-station for the
newly constructed route to Treblinka. The rear twenty
cars where the unsuitable workers were trapped were
uncoupled from the rest of the train. Quickly a second
locomotive was attached to these twenty cars, carrying
them off to Treblinka. Suddenly cries and screams from
the Treblinka train became deafening and were heard in
the other twenty cars with the suitable workers. After a
while, the noise abated and the train to Treblinka van-
ished into the forest. ...Connected nodes