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This will include lecture recordings, transcripts and speaker information. Objects from Treblinka Extermination Camp.
This project was sponsored by The Association of Jewish Refugees. You can watch the full lecture here. As part of their efforts to hide their crimes, the Nazis and their collaborators attempted to destroy the traces of the sites they had constructed to wipe out European Jews and of the remains of those they had murdered.
At Treblinka extermination camp, these efforts resulted in the demolition of camp buildings, the levelling of the landscape and the burning of the bodies of between , and one million people.
However, forensic archaeological investigations in the camp terrain have resulted in the discovery of much physical evidence related to the camp. In this lecture, Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls will discuss the objects found during surveys and minimally invasive excavations and the ways in which analysis of them has revealed new information about a range of lived experiences at the camp.
