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Frank S. |
“We arrived to Treblinka it went like this they detached first twenty cars, took them out, then second twenty cars, and we were in the last twenty cars and we arrived in Treblinka at about 10:30 in the morning and it was hell. They opened the gate of the car and yelled “Everybody out” and as everybody was getting out they were beating, whipping. And women to the left, women and children to the left, immediately away so that I didn’t even see my mother and Pola...they made us wait, men only in the middle of that sandy square of Treblinka...There was barbed wire lined with something that seemed very thickly planted fir trees to the left...that continuous grinding sound of the excavators of Treblinka that could be heard for miles and miles...they had to do something with the corpses. They buried them in huge ditches… Treblinka to me can be described in two terms. One is the term of the sound, that continuous grinding...and the other element of Treblinka was the smell of burning flesh, stench of burning flesh...and the sound and the stench were the two elements that we took with us out of Treblinka and which we couldn’t get rid for years.”
Holocaust Testimony (HVT 532)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library