"TREBLINKA II EXTERMINATION CAMP" AUDIO GUIDE
IN GERMAN
The audio guide - educational trail Treblinka II extermination camp is available on smartphones (iOS and Android systems). It can be downloaded for free via Google Play or the AppStore. The history of the Treblinka camp and the fate of selected individuals is recounted in 15 points. These points are outlined on a paper map and a map visible on the phone. As the visitor approaches the next point, the corresponding audio recording is activated automatically.
The trail leads the user along the route taken by those murdered at Treblinka. The content of each of the fifteen points consists of two components: historical information (from the founding of the Treblinka I and Treblinka II camps, through the camp layout, perpetrators, and inmates, to the Holocaust mechanism and the uprising of 2 August 1943), including witness narratives (selected quotes from testimonies and memoirs). The trail is intended to convey essential information and present the prisoners' perspectives - those for whom Treblinka marked the end of their lives and those who survived.
The authors of the project - the Treblinka Memory Foundation and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, with the support of the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund and the Treblinka Museum-German Nazi extermination and labour camp (1941-1944) - seek not only to tell the story of the camp but also to restore the memory of the lost communities. Through the recollections of Samuel Willenberg and other witnesses, the tragedy of people who lost their lives and their names is portrayed. The authors implore, in the words of Halina Birenbaum: "visit Treblinka - don't leave them lonesome".
The German version was created thanks in part to a grant from the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
The Treblinka II extermination camp audio guide is now available in four languages: English, Hebrew, German and Polish. The Jewish Historical Institute's inernet site offers a virtual walk-through with a paper version of the map.
The "Memory of Treblinka" Foundation and the Janusz Korczak School in Halle (Germany), in collaboration with the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, have prepared an audio guide version of the Treblinka II extermination camp in German.
Treblinka Museum