80 years later, scholarship is breaking silence on women’s suffering and strength at Treblinka – including their role in its uprising
- Written by Chad S.A. Gibbs, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
A commemorative ceremony in 2013 marks the 70th anniversary of the revolt in the Treblinka death camp.Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAAdek Stein – a Holocaust survivor from Bialystok, Poland – looked anxiously about the room, struggling with the question he’d just been asked. As his eyes searched his small audience, it...