Treblinka II

Travel with us from Warsaw to a quiet forest near the village of Treblinka, to explore the museum and memorial site of Treblinka I and Treblinka II. Witness with your own eyes the horrific scale of the Holocaust and learn about the Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Nazi’s Final Solution. Immerse yourself in the dark history of World War II. During the 5-hour tour, you will embark on a short, hassle-free journey from your accommodation in Warsaw to Treblinka in an air-conditioned private vehicle with an English-speaking driver. Your Private Guide will show you around the site of Treblinka I, which served as a penal labour camp, and Treblinka II, which is the second largest Nazi concentration camp in Europe, right after Auschwitz-Birkenau. See the touching memorial at Treblinka II, with 17,000 quarry stones symbolising gravestones with inscriptions indicating places of Holocaust train departures and learn the details of the Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews during World War II. Hear the story of the brave prisoners who started an uprising in the camp, and about the 700,000 - 900,000 Jews who were killed in its gas chambers. At the end of a thought provoking tour, you will be driven back to your accommodation in Warsaw.

Treblinka was the second largest death camp in Europe after Birkenau. Today it serves as an important reminder of atrocities committed during World War II and the significance of humanity.  Your guided tour begins with a pickup from your hotel where you will then drive 1.5-hours from Warsaw to Treblinka. Once arriving in Treblinka your guide will take you around the grounds and explain the history of the camp.  You will see the symbolic railway ramp, the museum building which hosts an exhibition with a model of Treblinka I and II camps, personal items found around the camp, and a short film with testimonies from a few of the survivors.

A private driver will pick you up from your accommodations in Warsaw in a Mercedes vehicle, comfortable for 1 up to 6 passengers. They will then take you to Treblinka for a half-day tour. During this 3-hour tour, the local English-speaking guide will introduce you to the atmosphere of this dramatic place. The Treblinka extermination camp was created on the order of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in 1942. However, from 1940 there was a penal camp for the Polish population (‘Treblinka I’) in the northern part of the Warsaw District, which in 1941 was transformed into a labor camp. In the vicinity of ‘Treblinka I’, the death camp called ‘Treblinka II’ was established to perform mass extermination of Jewish men, women, and children. The camp in Treblinka was second after the Auschwitz-Birkenau in terms of the number of victims killed in stationary gas chambers using flue gases and during mass executions. Among the victims, are Jews, Poles, and many other nationalities. The Germans directed transports from ghettos in occupied Poland to the camp, including the Warsaw Ghetto. Currently, in the area of the camp, the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom was built. While visiting the camp in Treblinka, you can visit the exhibition dedicated to the extermination camp. A monument built in 1964 commemorates Treblinka and its victims. After sightseeing and lunch, the driver will take you back to Warsaw and drop you off at your chosen location.