August 8,1942:
- "Jews of Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, go into hiding when Nazis order 2,000 to assemble for deportation.
By day's end, only a handful have been discovered. - "Catholic nun Edith Stein is gassed at Auschwitz."
"The very young, the very old, and the sick--that is, all those who could not work--were the first Warsaw Jews to be deported to Treblinka.
This July 1942 photograph shows an elderly man waiting to be helped to the deportation center.
The appalling circumstances in the ghetto, coupled with the horrific conditions on the deportation trains, assured that many of those who began the journey died before they reached their destination.
Almost all of the rest were murdered in the camp's gas chambers."
"The first trainload of Jews arrived at Treblinka on July 23, 1942.
From that day until the middle of August, between 5000 and 7000 victims arrived each day to be exterminated in the camp's gas chambers, which used diesel engines to produce lethal carbon monoxide gas.
In total, about 800,000 perished in Treblinka, most of whom first passed through this train station."
