As one of the three Operation Reinhard death camps, the name Treblinka is fairly well known. Described as the most ‘perfected’ of the Operation Reinhard death camps, Treblinka became the massacre site of over 800,000 European Jews, Poles and gypsies during the Holocaust. It also housed a labour camp where it is estimated that a further 10-12,000 people perished.

The physical evidence relating to the camps has been subject to minimal investigation; thus little was known about the layout of the extermination camp, the extent and nature of the mass graves and cremation pits, and the processes of killing.

All the artefacts presented here were located as a result of fieldwalking and the excavation of small test pits within the Treblinka camps. It is possible to date many of them to the camp period and associate them with the victims and inhabitants of the camp given the locations that they were found.

These now reside in the Muzeum Walki i Męczeństwa w Treblince, Poland.