זה־השער ליהוה צדיקים יבאו בו׃
This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous shall enter into it.
This was embroidered on a curtain that blocked the way to death at Treblinka. The curtain had been stolen from a synagogue where it had covered the Aron Kodesh, the holy ark where the Torahs were kept.
Such was the obsession that the Nazis had with destroying the Jewish people that they knew exactly how to profane our holy objects and twist our holy words. They were not content with killing--the killing was just a fraction of it. Two parts murder, three parts humiliation, one part torture, four parts hatred = one whole Holocaust.
People just came here to die.
There were no fields to work, no walls to build, no tracks to lay. The job of the few living Jews in Treblinka? To dispose of their fellow Jews.
"The presented pictures were taken by Kurt Franz, the deputy commandant of the death camp in Treblinka. They came from the album called, 'Beautiful Times.'"
Treblinka looks like a cemetery. The difference is that each stone represents not one person, but an entire community.
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