Treblinka

Treblinka is the book that is causing a world-wide re-examination of the Jewish experiencein the face of the Nazi holocaust. For it fullydocuments for the first time"and for the firsttime brings to worldwide attention"an eventof enormous significance.It is a. story that begins in 1942, when the5.5. chose Treblinka, a small village northeastof Warsaw, as the site for a model death camp"the first of its kind"a camp which existedonly to mass-produce death and in which nowork was done but the labor of death. There,in the summer of 1943, a small group ofJewish prisoners planned and led an armedrebellion, killing the S.S. guards and destroying the compound where- during a single year800,000 men, women and children had beenexterminated.For the technicians of the Einal Solutionthe revolt was an inexplicable defeat. Theymethodically set out to erase its memory"plowing under the rubble and ashes of thecamp, its victims and its slain garrison. It wasnot until twenty years later that Jean-Fran"oisSteiner, following a trail of rumors andmeager references, tracked down the scattered survivors of the uprising and was ableto record theft story. With the publication ofhis book, the truth"and the meaning"ofTreblinka are reinstated in history.