Event · Deportation
Evacuation of Jews from the provinces
Jews from surrounding communities were evacuated to Treblinka.
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... the Jews in the provinces were evacuated, Barasz turned
over to Tamarof certain photographs and documents,
some of which contained horrifying information. These
papers were found in the clothes of provincial Jews sent
away. The jackets, after proper disinfection, were
returned to Bialystok so the textile factories could recy-
cle them. While sorting these garments, the workers
found papers written by their former owners. The name
‘“Treblinka” often appeared. And so the ghastly truth
the Nazis had been concealing — what ‘“‘deportation”’
really meant — was uncovered. ...Connected nodes