Yankiel Wiernik Model of Treblinka - Ghetto Fighters House, Israel
Treblinka Death Camp - Main Guardhouse built by Yankiel Wiernik
Treblinka Death Camp - Train Tracks and Ramp
Treblinka Death Camp - SS Barracks and Armoury
Treblinka Death Camp - Lazarett
Treblinka Death Camp - New Gas Chambers
Treblinka Death Camp - New and Old Gas Chambers
Treblinka Death Camp - German Quarters
Treblinka Death Camp - Watchtower
Treblinka Death Camp - Jewish Ghetto Area
Treblinka Death Camp - Kommandantur
Treblinka Death Camp Roasts
Treblinka Death Camp - Main Entrance
Yankiel Wiernik was a Treblinka death camp survivor. He was incarcerated in Treblinka during August 1942, until he escaped during the prisoner revolt on August 2, 1943. He settled in Israel and he made the model of the death camp during 1956. In a letter that Wiernik wrote to Professor Berl Marek on January 20, 1960, he refers that the miniature model is not finished. The model was already in place during the opening of the Ghetto Fighters House Museum on May 5, 1959. If the model remained unfinished, this would explain why for instance the zoo, which was also built by Wiernik during 1943, is not included in the model.
Sources
Thanks to Ron Cohen for the photographs
Thanks to Madene Shachar for all her help and support
Thanks to the Ghetto Fighters House, Israel
Peter Laponder - Reconstructing Treblinka Unpublished Work 2000
© Holocaust Historical Society - September 17, 2022
