Train Tracks from Treblinka

Sections of train track were pulled from the ground near the Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the industrial efficiency of the Nazis' "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" helped carry out genocide. Trains transported millions of Jews to their deaths, often in freight cars bound directly for sites of extermination. Immediately upon exiting the cars, victims were stripped of clothing, packed into gas chambers labeled "showers," and poisoned with carbon monoxide. Other Jews were forced to collect and burn the bodies, destroying the evidence of genocide and making room for additional victims.

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