Treblinka camp location

I have provided some evidence that Treblinka camp was in fact the Malkinia camp located at the Junction of the railway line heading North. This does not mean there was not another camp some 8km south of this point currently called TII. All of these camps (including Czerwony bor and Kosow Podlaski) were part of the Treblinka camp complex. It is possible that witnesses were confused as to what camp they were in; this would account for a vastly divergent number of claims that have been made.

The shape of the TII camp was supposedly unique in that is was trapezoid. There is little doubt that the current TII camp has the trapezoid quality. This can clearly be seen in the North facing 1943 image below:



The area of this is only about 10 ha and not the 26 ha as claimed by other witnesses; this is not a minor discrepancy.

The following survey map (1945) has the area even smaller with North in the wrong direction; the arrow is heading East.  Incompetent Surveyors?  The roads and the railway line are in the correct perspective.


Does the Malkinia junction loop have a trapezoid shape? The area calculated is roughly 26 ha as some witnesses claim; it has a northerly aspect.

Here is a photo of the Malkinia junction with the shape outlined. A map of TII is added next to this for comparison.  One may notice the rectangular darkened area to the south east which corresponds to the extermination area in the diagram.



To highlight some aspects for interested readers here is a slightly updated version of the above image.

Numerous witnesses speak to TII being the camp located on the spur line leading to Treblinka labout camp and quarry, which is in the area shown here;

Thank you Nessie for repeating for what is already well known. No one is denying there was a camp of sorts at the current location of TII as indicated in your maps(photos).

However, due to the discrepancies in Wierniks' map one and the following early entry from the Holocaust Encyclopaedia:

the location of this place is the Malkinia railway loop.

For some reason North in the early days was indicated by early surveyors was in in fact East.


By those early errors the Malkinia loop camp (Treblinka) would be exactly 4 km NW of the Treblinka railway station. The area of the place as indicated in photos above is 400m x 600m. Please read the above properly for more information. The alleged extermination quadrant can be clearly seen aligning with the Treblinka maps.

That may be TII, but the Treblinka, (Tremblinka) camp was it would appear at the Malkinia loop.  This ticks far more boxes than the current TII and will explain the discrepancies in observations, maps and other issues.

I am not sure if you are in a position to tell the Holocaust Encyclopedia they are wrong or Yankel Wiernik; are you a "denier" or a "revisionist'?

The faint tracks and the alleged extermination area fits precisely with the Treblinka map as well as the general layout, the size, where North is and so on.

Israel Gutman (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols., Macmillan, New York 1990, vol. 4, p. 1481-87.

The Malkinia facility was a correctional centre; the loop camp was a Treblinka camp it would seem.

The beauty about books is that information is not so easily morphed as electronic media.  Current sources have altered information to suit the current thinking,(sanitation) just as Wiernik and others have altered their maps etc to align with the new normal sanitized versions.

Just as Wiernik had north heading East in his first map and much later also with a professional surveyors map, it is clear people in the area had their bearings wrong.  For some reason they thought east was north.  

Following the instructions in the Encyclopedia mentioned above here is the location on google maps. (4 km NW of the Treblinka railway station)

It says "the camp".

It is definitive so there may be the following camps in the area:

• Treblinka
• Treblinka I (quarry)
• Treblinka II (judenlager)
• Treblinka III (Czerwony bor)
• Treblinka IV (Kosow Podlaski)

We are discussing Treblinka not Treblinka II; Treblinka II was the Judenlager next to the quarry full of Warsaw jews.  No need to discuss this camp anymore.

I think that Wierniks first map was correct in what he thought was an extermination area next to the Warsaw Bialystok line; this aligns with the independent Holocaust Encyclopedia entry which puts Treblinka at the Malkinia rail loop.