The monumental Treblinka memorial surrounded by symbolic tombstones at sunset with the moon in the background

The monumental Treblinka memorial photographed at sunset, with the moon rising in the background. The central granite structure, 8 meters high, was erected on the exact spot where the gas chambers stood. Around it extends a field of 17,000 rough stones of various sizes, each symbolically representing a destroyed Jewish community. Treblinka was the second extermination camp by number of victims after Auschwitz: between July 1942 and October 1943, approximately 900,000 people were murdered there, almost all Jewish, mainly from the Warsaw ghetto.

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