The Umschlagplatz
The Umschlagplatz (literally 'transshipment square') was the former railway siding by Dzika Street. Here the Nazis loaded deportees onto cattle trucks to be 'resettled in the east', which in practice meant being sent to the extermination camp at Treblinka, 60 kilometres (40 miles) north-east of Warsaw. During the Great Deportation several thousand people were being sent from here each day. Prior to this it had been the Transferstelle, a sort of customs control dealing with the movement of goods in and out of the ghetto.
Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived near the middle of the 10th century. Its golden age occurred in the 16th century. During the following century, the strengthening of the gentry and internal disorders weakened the nation. In a series of ... ... read more 
