Close-up street portrait of Dawid Samoszul, probably taken in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, between 1936 and 1938.
Dawid was killed in the Treblinka killing center at the age of 9.
Item View![Studio portrait of Chava Leichter, murdered in Treblinka in 1942 at the age of 25. [LCID: 67471]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/24ddde6c-49b5-4777-93f9-d2d9913a111f.jpg "Studio portrait of Chava Leichter, murdered in Treblinka in 1942 at the age of 25. [LCID: 67471]")
Studio portrait of Chava Leichter, murdered in the Treblinka killing center in 1942 at the age of 25. Her brother Chaim emigrated to Palestine in 1937 on the boat Polania. He served in the British army in Libya during the war. This photograph was taken in 1939.
Item ViewLike other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as Abraham hid in a crawl space, the Germans seized his mother and sisters in a raid. They perished. He was deployed for forced labor nearby, but escaped to return to his father in the ghetto. In 1943, the two were deported to Majdanek, where Abraham's father died. Abraham later was sent to Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben, Bisingen, and Dachau. US troops liberated Abraham as the Germans evacuated prisoners.
Item View![Under guard, Jewish men, women, and children board trains during deportation from Siedlce to the Treblinka killing center. [LCID: 11158]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/62d82cfd-5c83-4eed-bc41-7b9e94fa2c6e.jpg "Under guard, Jewish men, women, and children board trains during deportation from Siedlce to the Treblinka killing center. [LCID: 11158]")
Under guard, Jewish men, women, and children board trains during deportation from Siedlce to the Treblinka killing center. Siedlce, Poland, August 1942.
Item View![Bulgarian authorities round up Jews in occupied Macedonia for deportation. [LCID: 68286c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/73961d2d-3981-4946-a317-44db0d402a32.jpg "Bulgarian authorities round up Jews in occupied Macedonia for deportation. [LCID: 68286c]")
Bulgarian authorities round up Jews in occupied Macedonia for deportation. They were first held in a camp in Skopje and then deported to the Treblinka killing center in German-occupied Poland. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
Item View![Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp in Skopje prepare to board deportation ... [LCID: 79727]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/332e1012-3362-4278-9e63-b3980e61e0de.jpg "Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp in Skopje prepare to board deportation ... [LCID: 79727]")
Jews from Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp in Skopje prepare to board deportation trains. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
Item View![Macedonian Jews prepare to board a deportation train in Skopje. [LCID: 37065]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/badbf7c5-49da-4c1c-a965-0cafaf06ff28.jpg "Macedonian Jews prepare to board a deportation train in Skopje. [LCID: 37065]")
Macedonian Jews prepare to board a deportation train in Skopje. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
The Jews of Bulgarian-occupied Thrace and Macedonia were deported in March 1943. On March 11, 1943, over 7,000 Macedonian Jews from Skopje, Bitola, and Stip were rounded up and assembled at the Tobacco Monopoly in Skopje, whose several buildings had been hastily converted into a transit camp. The Macedonian Jews were kept there between eleven and eighteen days, before being deported by train in three transports between March 22 and 29, to the Treblinka killing center.
Item View![Scene during the deportation of Jews from Thrace to the Treblinka killing center. [LCID: 79616]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9befb926-ab4d-4f49-9511-766a41619887.jpg "Scene during the deportation of Jews from Thrace to the Treblinka killing center. [LCID: 79616]")
Scene during the deportation of Jews from Thrace to the Treblinka killing center. Lom, Bulgaria, March 1943.
Item View![Train station near the Treblinka killing center. This photo was found in an album belonging to camp commandant Kurt Franz. [LCID: 35274]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b4bb4228-b653-4d3e-b9a3-88edca3dff03.jpg "Train station near the Treblinka killing center. This photo was found in an album belonging to camp commandant Kurt Franz. [LCID: 35274]")
Train station near the Treblinka killing center. This photo was found in an album belonging to camp commandant Kurt Franz. Poland, 1942-1943.
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In 1963, the German Democratic Republic (DDR) issued this postage stamp to commemorate the Treblinka killing center. This was the first stamp of a series issued annually by the DDR under the name Mahn- und Gedensksatte (Remembrance and Memorial Center) in remembrance and commemoration.
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