Wiernik map one.

This map is worthy of discussion as well as subsequent maps; this might be the only truthful thing this apparent operative has made. It also links to Malkinia.

It is not about belief but where the evidence flows, in this case serious flaws which do not align with the current camp.  Perhaps you may like to contribute instead of the theorizing about what people should and should not do.

Unlikely to be errors, this was produced a short while after he escaped after the rebellion; matters were clearly fresh in his mind.


A cursory examination of the thumbnail above shows that the map is carefully drawn with a compass rosette; north is clearly indicated. Some parts are nicely typed, while Warsaw and Bialystok are written in very neat readable letters. He has put in a legend to indicate the railway line, he even has a spur line entering the camp from the North West. There appears to be Hebrew "flame writing" as well.

This is NOT a hurried map but a carefully considered and presented item, worthy of full attention. He obviously paid attention to detail. It is just that those details do not align with the current location of TII.

Discarding this work, a work from an original Treblinka survivor because it does not fit with the later graphical morphing says much.

We have linked this (Prudent Regret and others) to a location near the junction at Malkinia, but more to come.

I think you can answer your own questions due to the links given to the same place: deathcamps.org


According to Wiki


This resistance group was the Jewish Underground who got him false papers, a Kennkarte in the name of Kowalczyk.


A "year in Treblinka" was published in the same year as map one. The book was produced due to the influence of Jewish agencies, first as a clandestine document.


This is a very polite way of saying Wiernik was almost illiterate. Did he write his own book? Did the Jewish organization write it for him using his name?

Obviously map one was drawn by someone who had no connection with the current location of TII.

The evidential value of this for anything holocaust related is perhaps limited.  
It is produced and it is from that era, a time when so many documents are missing.  


Interesting one of the first maps shows North in a different perspective.

The "Survey Map" below is very similar to the above map.



Here are three maps of TII all in a northerly perspective. Strangely enough the "survey map" has "north" 45 degrees out from the middle map, which has the compass alignments correct. One would expect the "survey" map to be correct at least.

This source attributes the plan to Jakub Krzepicki, not Yankel Wiernik

www.memorialdelashoah.org/upload/minisites/ringelblum/shoah/exhibition/exposition5-en.htm

According to the GHETTO FIGHTERS HOUSE ARCHIVES this below is the second drawing of the Treblinka 2 camp drawn by Jakow (Yaakow) Wiernik , made by him in February 1945.
The legend was written by his daughter, Yael Levi Gordon.
Wiernik made the drawing in Warsaw, having consulted two camp survivors: a man named Reisman and Henrik (Jechiel) Rajchman.
This drawing was the blueprint for Wiernik’s model of the camp.

This info is from THIS Jewish website.

It states that Wiernik took part in the Treblinka uprising of 2 August 1943, succeeded in escaping, and returned to Warsaw.
There he became part of the Jewish underground, the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Social Organisations (in Polish known as the KK, Komisja Koordynacyjna Zydowskich Instytucji Spolecznych). He even served as a liaison person for the KK.

As part of their propaganda drive, in 1943 he drew a diagram of the Treblinka camp’s layout and wrote down what he claimed he had seen during his year’s stay there. This non-credible and racist document, Rok w Treblince (English: A year in Treblinka), was published in 1944 by the Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy) after a clandestine edition was published by members of the Polish underground who worked at the print shop of the Nazi-sponsored Polish language newspaper, Nowy Kurier Warszawski.

On 24 May 1944, this written testimony was sent together with a packet of underground documentation from Warsaw to Jewish activists in London (seat of the Polish government-in-exile) and from there to the U.S.A. and to Mandate Palestine. In Palestine his testimony was published in Hebrew in December 1944 by the Histadrut - General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel, part of its brief works series, “Pinkas Katan.” At the same time, it was translated into other languages, notably English and Yiddish.

In 1945 he redid his drawing of the Treblinka camp’s layout, after the loss of the original drawing that he had made in late 1943 - early 1944. (This 1945 version is preserved in the Archives of the Ghetto Fighters’ House and is shown below). After the war he became one of the many Jewish  colonialist settlers that commited racist ethnic cleansing of non-Jews in Palestine, and in the early 1950s he became a settler in Holon.

In 1955 he was approached by Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman to build a model of the Treblinka camp for the Ghetto Fighters’ House museum. The model‘s exhibit was inaugurated in 1959.