By James Langwell. Treblinka was an experience that I don't know how to feel about. I guess, confused? It is unbelievable to me to think that a facility with the size of Treblinka was able to achieve the results it did with so little time and evidence. We are still looking for remains of the camp 80 years later. I am also disappointed with not being able to see Treblinka 2, as that area is still being researched currently. I am also sad that the museum for one of if not the, deadliest locations in Poland had such a tiny museum dedicated to it.
Treblinka deserves more memorialization and respect than it is currently given, however for various reasons, that most likely isn't going to happen. Treblinka doesn't get much tourist traffic in comparison to Auschwitz, so the government might not see much reason to invest in it. Treblinka also doesn't memorialize Poles specifically, it is meant to memorialize Jews who were killed in the camp. Poland has a reputation currently for wanting to have more Polish representation in comparison to Jewish people. I wonder if there were as many Polish Catholic victims at Treblinka as there were at Auschwitz if there might not be even greater State-sponsored memorialization.
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