Posted on 02/20/2016 4:14:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
JERUSALEM -- Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.
Only 67 people are known to have survived the camp, fleeing in a revolt shortly before it was destroyed.
Treblinka holds a notorious place in history as perhaps the most vivid example of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's Jews. Unlike at other camps, where some Jews were assigned to forced labour before being killed, nearly all Jews brought to Treblinka were immediately gassed to death.
Only a select few -- mostly young, strong men like Willenberg, who was 20 at the time -- were spared from immediate death and assigned to maintenance work instead.
On Aug. 2, 1943, a group of Jews stole some weapons, set fire to the camp and headed to the woods. Hundreds fled, but most were shot and killed by Nazi troops in the surrounding mine fields or captured by Polish villagers who returned them to Treblinka.
"The world cannot forget Treblinka," Willenberg told The Associated Press in a 2010 interview.
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RIP.
Wow. When hell was in session. A reporter once asked John Paul II whether an evil time will return like that of WWII. He said, No. WWII was the max of Satan’s power as foreseen by Sr. Lucia in 1917. The magnitude of evil from WWII is still sad and astounding.
About two months earlier than Sobibor, a few hundred excapees. There was a revolt at Auschwitz the week before Sobibor.
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Lord, receive the soul of Samuel Willenberg. Amen.
Will Obama take a moment to honor Willenberg?
“The magnitude of evil from WW2 is still sad and astounding’’. Indeed it is.I’ve studied WW2 for most of my life from the time I was in junior high. I still find the barbarity and unimaginable horror of the Holocaust beyond belief . That perhaps the most cultured nation in Europe, that the German people could do such as thing is truly horrifying. As the last survivors of that horror leave this earth I fer future generations might believe it didn’t happen.
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There was evil on both the nazi and the communist sides — when you can read “The Red Tsar - Stalin”, i’d strongly recommend it.
I’ve always said Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union were two scorpions in a bottle. Thanks for the book recommendation. Its ironic that the biggest killer of Communists wasn’t Hitler but Stalin.
I agree. Studying WWII is always interesting. I am not nervous about future generations ignoring WWII and the camps. After all, it just takes one picture from Auschwitz to teach a lesson for a lifetime.
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