Editing Treblinka extermination camp (section)

====Treblinka song====
According to postwar testimonies, when transports were temporarily halted, then-deputy commandant Kurt Franz wrote lyrics to a song meant to celebrate the Treblinka extermination camp. In reality, prisoner Walter Hirsch wrote them for him. The melody came from something Franz remembered from [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]]. The music was upbeat, in the key of [[D (musical note)|D major]]. The song was taught to Jews assigned to work in the ''Sonderkommando''.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=90|loc=section 2}} They were forced to memorise it by nightfall of their first day at the camp.<ref>Claude Lanzmann (director, ''[[Shoah (film)|Shoah]]'', New Yorker Films, 1985, DVD disc 3, ch. 1<!--check disc 3, ch 1-->; Claude Lanzmann, ''Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust'', New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, 95.</ref><ref>For more about the song, see Erin McGlothlin, "The Voice of the Perpetrator, the Voices of the Survivors", in Erin Heather McGlothlin, Jennifer M. Kapczynski (eds.), ''Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies'', Rochester: Campden House, 2016, 40–49.</ref> ''Unterscharführer'' [[Franz Suchomel]] recalled the lyrics as follows: "We know only the word of the Commander. / We know only obedience and duty. / We want to keep working, working, / until a bit of luck beckons us some time. Hurrah!"<ref name="perp">Suchomel's lyrics in German: ''"Wir kennen nur das Wort des Kommandanten / und nur Gehorsamkeit und Pflicht / Wir wollen weiter, weiter leisten / bis daß das kleine Glück uns einmal winkt. Hurrah!"'' {{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13518094.html |title=Der zähe Schaum der Verdrängung |last1=Von Brumlik |first1=Micha |date=17 February 1986 |website=Der Spiegel |publisher=Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG. |access-date=16 June 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924235014/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13518094.html |url-status=live }} {{cite web |author=Webb, Chris |year=2007 |url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/arperpsspeak.html |title=The Perpetrators Speak |publisher=H.E.A.R.T HolocaustResearchProject.org |work=Belzec, Sobibor & Treblinka Death Camps |access-date=30 October 2013 |archive-date=6 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906021944/http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/arperpsspeak.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

A musical ensemble was formed, under duress, by [[Artur Gold]], a popular Jewish [[Polish culture in the Interbellum|prewar composer]] from Warsaw. He arranged the theme to the Treblinka song for the {{nowrap|10-piece}} prisoner orchestra which he conducted. Gold arrived in Treblinka in 1942 and played music in the SS mess hall at the ''Wohnlager'' on German orders. He died during the uprising.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=90}}