LEGEND: TREBLINKA PRE OCTOBER 1942
1.
Main gate (Ordinary gate at first, the elaborate
Wiernik gate with the two pillars was built much later)
2. Guardhouse (Some maps show the guardhouse outside the camp which could be an earlier guard house as the Tyrolean Guardhouse was built in the last stage of the camp)
3. Parking for armoured car (Possible that a armoured car was also present in early stage)
4.
SS Mess &
Barracks (Possibly
only one barrack, [check Rajzman map] later a second could have been added. Also
Arms storeroom was built later).
5.
Large Gasoline
tank (Possible
as large quantities for gaschamber engine was always necessary) and Petrol pump
(Possible)
6.
Garage (Possible)
7.
Large coal heap (Possible)
8.
Barrack for
Goldjuden and workshops. (It is described that this barrack which was on the
lower slope of the land, was there first. Later the second or higher barrack
was erected forming the ‘U’ shaped building. The Jews who were first staying in
the ‘First male prisoner barrack’ in the ‘Undressing yard’, were then
transferred to this ‘Ghetto’)
9. Stable farmyard (Possible that this could have been there from the onset)
10. Domestic Staff barrack (Or possible also a sorting/foodstore barrack, which is indicated on some maps)
11.
SS Service
barrack (Dentist,
Doctor etc. would have been necessary)
12. Camp Commandant (Maybe a smaller building at first as is indicated on some maps. Note no gardening around SS barracks as this was was done later)
13.
Barrack,
Ukrainian guards. (The Rajzman
map is the only map which indicates the Ukrainian guard huts in a completely
different layout. It is possible that he may have remembered the first set-up.
It is mentioned somewhere that the Ukrainian compound was enlarged later.)
14. Barrack, Ukrainian guards. (As on the Rajzman map. Note the forest is still very dense around this area, as in the rest of the ‘Living Camp’. It is stated that later the forest was cleared. The Zoo was also only built at a later stage)
15. Ukrainian kitchen (The cellar for spirits & wine as well as the potato cellars is left out)
16. Timber Yard (Possible that it was there from the beginning.
However the cremation grids, built later in Feb 1943 which needed vast amounts
of wooden fuel, may have caused the Timber yard area to expand)
RECEPTION
AREA
17. Station yard
18. Platform (The platform was only later improved with the slag stone)
19.
Storage Barrack (Not as a ‘Station’ yet, this was only in December
1943). Note the sorting Barrack A [Pferdestall] is left out as some maps do not
indicate it at all. Possibility exists that it was erected later)
20. Sorting
Yard
21.
Pit for corpses (As indicated on aerial, this at the early
stage would have been a open pit)
22.
Pit for corpses (It is mentioned that the Lazarett was
actually the third part of what was originally a large mass grave. This section
would then have been the middle part, no evidence on aerial though)
23. Area of mass grave which became later the Lazarett.
24.
High earth mound. (This was described from the onset of the
camp. The possibility exist that the mound was formed by the excavation of the
mass graves in the sorting yard area)
UNDRESSING YARD
25.
Latrine in
undressing yard (Careful
reading in Donat will reveal that there was a makeshift latrine behind the
‘First male prisoner barrack’. It was the spot from which the first successful
escape was launched by a few inmates)
26. First Male Prisoner Barracks. (sleeping
barracks)
27. Notice board in undressing yard. (Later removed)
28.
Undressing
Barracks for Females. (A shorter
barrack is indicated as at first [according the barber Bomba] the cutting was
initially done in the old gaschambers)
29. The ‘Tube’. (Note the length, which some sources describe as over 100 meters, hence a discrepancy with some shorter sizes. In this map it is about 150 meters to scale)
30.
Hut for
collecting valuables by SS Suchomel. (This hut was later removed and the collection was done
before the victims went into the tube to speed up the process)
31.
Screen for
blocking view in Death Camp. (Possible from
the beginning)
32.
Old Gaschambers. (New gaschambers were only completed in
late October)
33. Inner temporary fencing. (Fencing later removed not certain if this fencing was at beginning)
34. ‘Sonderkommando’ barrack.
35.
Capo or Kitchen
section. (Wiernik model shows two barracks, some
maps show a section in between the living and kitchen barrack)
36.
Sentry Box. (Note no watchtower in middle
of Deathcamp which was only brought in later)
37.
Narrow Gauge
Track (Removed
later as they were not practical, the rails were used as test cremation grids)
38.
Mass grave. (According to one of the first
maps, this eastern area of the camp was the only area which had mass graves. It
seems the mass graves on the western side next to the big earth mound was
created later)
39.
Mass grave (Was later the
area which was planted with pine saplings)
Note that the Death Camp was shortened towards the
edge of the ‘High Earth Mound’ thus making the camp in effect smaller. This
could explain why Stangl was able to stand on the mound and see victims going
into the Old gaschambers which he would not have been able to do when the New
gaschambers were completed. Later the short section of fencing at the mound’s
north side could have been added when the New Gaschambers were completed. There
is mention that there was a continual shifting of fences and erection of new
ones.)
40. Watchtower (Which was removed later to the inside of the Death Camp)
The Anti tank traps were only introduced when the Russian advance became a real threat. Only then the area outside the fence was cleared of undergrowth and the forest was cut back.
It is possible that the vegetable patch was made later outside the camp. The Kudlik/Laks/Platkiewicz map indicates a vegetable garden where the roll-call area was later. This could be possible as the “Ghetto” was also made later and the internal vegetable garden moved to the outside of the camp.
REMEMBER MOST OF THIS IS PURE SPECULATION SO DON’T TRY AND SHOOT ME DOWN TO HARD.