"In March, 1942, the Germans began to erect another camp, Treblinka B, in the neighbourhood of Treblinka A, intended to become a place of torment for Jews.

The erection of this camp was closely connected with the German plans aimed at the complete destruction of the Jewish population in Poland which necessitated the creation of machinery by means of which the Polish Jews could be killed in large numbers.  Late in April, 1942, the erection of the first chambers, in which these general massacres were to be performed by means of steam, was finished.  Somewhat later, the erection of the real death building, which contained ten death chambers, was finished.  It was opened for wholesale murders in early autumn 1942."

"The average number of Jews dealt with at the Camp in the summer of 1942 was about two railway transports daily, but there were days of much higher efficiency.  From autumn, 1942, this number fell off.

After unloading in the siding, all victims were assembled in one place, where men were separated from women and children.  In the first days of the existence of the camp, necessary for bathing and disinfection, they would be sent farther East, for work.  Explanations of this sort were given by S.S. men who assisted at the unloading of the transports, and further explanations could be read in notices stuck up on the walls of the barracks.  But later, when more transports had to be dealt with, the Germans dropped all pretences and only tried to accelerate the procedure.

All victims had to strip off their clothes and shoes, which were collected afterwards, whereupon all of them, women and children first, were driven into the death chambers.  Those too slow or too weak to move quickly were driven in by rifle butts, by whipping and kicking, often by Sauer himself.  Many slipped and fell; the next victims pressed forward and stumbled over them.  Small children were simply thrown inside.  After being filled up to capacity, the chambers were hermetically closed and steam was let in.  In a few minutes all was over.  The Jewish menial workers had to remove the bodies from the platform and to bury them in mass graves.  By and by, as new transports arrived, the cemetery grew, extending in the Eastern direction.

From reports received it may be assumed that several hundred thousand Jews were exterminated in Treblinka."

"Awake or asleep I see terrible visions of thousands of people calling for help, begging for life and mercy.

I have lost my family, I have myself led them to death, I have myself built the death chambers in which they were murdered.

I am afraid of everything, I fear that what I have seen is written on my face.  An old and broken life is a heavy burden, but I must carry on and live to tell the world what German crimes and barbarism I have seen."