The Treblinka Uprising: Resistance & Remembrance 80 Years Later

Join The National WWII Museum as we host Arizona State University professor Jacob Flaws, PhD, and College of Charleston professor Chad Gibbs, PhD, in conversation with Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy historian Jason Dawsey, PhD, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Treblinka prisoner uprising. On August 2, 1943, Jewish inmates in the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, staged a daring revolt. Facing almost certain death, roughly 1,000 prisoners rose up against their captors. As many as 100 prisoners escaped the SS during the revolt, some of whom survived World War II. On the 80th anniversary of this crucial act of Jewish resistance, we recall this extraordinary story of heroism and defiance.