The Zoo in Treblinka


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The Zoo in Treblinka. Built in the spring of 1943 by the Jewish workers.
The camp commander, Franz Stangl, said about the Zoo:

"We had any number of marvellous birds there, and benches and flowers an expert from Vienna designed it for us - of course we were able to have experts for anything"
- Gitta Sereny - Into that Darkness, p. 166

Arad, Yitzhak; Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, p. 93
A picture from the so-called "Kurt Franz-album" used as evidence in the Düsseldorf trial (1st Treblinka trial) in 1964-1965.