Memorial area with black stones symbolizing the cremation grates built by the Nazis at Treblinka

A memorial area at the Treblinka extermination camp site, where black stones and basalt symbolically represent the cremation grates built by the Nazis to burn victims' bodies. In the background stands the main monument surrounded by 17,000 symbolic tombstones. After the prisoners' revolt in August 1943, the Nazis dismantled the camp trying to erase all traces of crimes committed. The original grates, built with railway rails, were used to cremate hundreds of thousands of bodies in mass graves. Today this place is a symbolic cemetery for victims without graves.

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