Treblinka - Jean-Francois Steiner

This is a Novel, and is wrongly classified as non-fiction. The only factual page is at the start of the book, containing a translation of the famous speech Himmler gave in Posen (Poznan).

?Treblinka? is one of many true stories written about the fate of the Jews during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. It is told in all its gruesome detail, leaving the reader emotionally drained. I would like to begin by giving a brief description of the camp, as learnt from both the book and other research. Treblinka was a concentration camp set up as part of Aktion Reinhard. In this camp, the lives of some 845,000 Polish Jews were extinguished, 29,000 Jews from elsewhere and 2,000 gypsies. The camp originally had three gas chambers, built at the branch of the railway track. Each chamber was capable of killing 2,500 people each hour ? all of ...  Read the complete review