TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

Chapter III: Investigations, Camp Plans, Statistics 91
4. Plans of Treblinka
On his inspection of the area of the former camp Treblinka II of November
9 to 13, 1945, �ukaszkiewicz was accompanied by the sworn surveyor K.
Trautsolt. With the help of witnesses, Trautsolt drew an accurate plan of Treblinka
II as it was at that time. 220 The plan, whose directional axes are transposed,
221 shows an irregular quadrilateral whose sides have the following
lengths:
– north side (actually the east side): 376.5 m
– east side (actually the south side): 471.5 m
– south side (actually the west side): 490 m
– west side (actually the north side): 240 m
Thus, the overall area of the Treblinka II camp was approximately 134,500
m 2 (13.45 hectares).
On the plan the ruins, which existed in the camp area, are also entered: a
burned out cellar (“piwnica spalona”), designated by the letter ‘e’, as well as
the destroyed house of a settler (“dom burzony kolonisty”), marked with the
letter ‘l’.
On another, typographically identical map, surveyor Trautsolt added the
facilities that had allegedly been located in the camp area according to witness
testimony. �ukaszkiewicz published two versions of this map, of which the
first is quite poor, 222 the second of a higher quality. 223 On the latter, the (alleged)
extermination zone, also referred to by many witnesses as ‘Camp II’
within Treblinka II, is exactly shown. It is an irregular quadrilateral. If one
uses the sides of the camp for scale, the length of the sides of the cremation
zone can be calculated:
– north side (east): 188 m
– east side (south): 110 m
– south side (west): 174 m
– west side (north): 52 m
Thus, the surface area of this zone would have been some 14,000 m 2 (1.4
hectares), that is, a tenth of the entire camp Treblinka II. This zone, Camp II,
was the alleged death camp, the area of Treblinka II, in which the two gassing
installations, the mass graves, and the incineration pits are supposed to have
been located. The rest of Treblinka II, also referred to as Camp I, allegedly
220
See Document 7 in the Appendix. A similar, simplified plan was reproduced by A. Neumaier,
“The Treblinka Holocaust”, in: G. Rudolf (ed.), op. cit. (note 81), p. 483; cf. Document
8. As is obvious from the plan, it originates from the archive of the Main Commission
for the Investigation of Hitler Crimes in Poland (G�ównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich
w Polsce).
221
The north-south line on the map actually corresponds to the east-west line.
222
See Document 9 in the Appendix.
223
See Document 10 in the Appendix.