Editing Treblinka extermination camp (section)

===First estimates===
The first estimate of the number of people murdered at Treblinka came from [[Vasily Grossman]], a Soviet war reporter who visited Treblinka in July 1944 as the Soviet forces marched westward across Poland. He published an article called "The Hell Called Treblinka", which appeared in the November 1944 issue of ''Znamya'', a monthly Russian literary magazine.{{sfn|Grossman|2005|p=434}} In the article, he claimed that 3&nbsp;million people had been murdered at Treblinka. He may not have been aware that the short station platform at Treblinka II greatly reduced the number of wagons that could be unloaded at one time,{{sfn|Grossman|2005|p=457}} and may have been adhering to the Soviet trend of exaggerating Nazi crimes for propaganda purposes.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=114}} In 1947, the Polish historian [[Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz]] gave an estimate of 780,000 murders,{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=114}}{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=113|ps=: Ryszard Czarkowski, ''Cieniom Treblinki'' [To Shadows of Treblinka], Wydawn. Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej 1989. {{ISBN|83-11-07724-X}}; and Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz, "Obóz zagłady Treblinka," in: Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, I, 1946, p. 142.}} based on the accepted record of 156 transports with an average of 5,000 prisoners each.<ref name="Stein">{{cite web |url=http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/gcpoltreb1.htm |title=The Treblinka Extermination Camp |publisher=HLSS Social Sciences |work=Source: German Crimes in Poland. Volume I. Published by the Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. Warsaw, 1946 |date=2 February 2000 |access-date=29 July 2014 |editor=S.D. Stein |format=Internet Archive |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008222717/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/gcpoltreb1.htm |archive-date=8 October 2006}}</ref>