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===Treblinka=== The first revolt occurred at [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] on 2 August 1943.<ref>{{cite book | last=Chrostowski | first=Witold | title=Extermination camp Treblinka | publisher=Vallentine Mitchell | location=London Portland, OR | year=2004 | isbn=0-85303-457-5 | oclc=51810769 | page= 94}}</ref> Prisoners used a duplicate key to open the camp arsenal and steal 20 to 25 rifles, 20 hand grenades, and several pistols. At 3:45 p.m., 700 Jews launched an attack on the camp's ''SS'' guards and [[Trawniki men|trawniki]]s that lasted for 30 minutes.{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p = 110}} They set buildings and a fuel tanker ablaze. Armed Jews attacked the main gate, while others attempted to climb the fence. About 200 Jews escaped from the camp,{{efn|Two hundred is the number accepted by Polish historians and the Treblinka camp museum; the ''Holocaust Encyclopedia'' lists 300, instead.}}{{sfn|Weinfeld|2013|p=43}}{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=110}} but the well-armed guards slaughtered hundreds of others.{{sfn|Smith|2010}} They phoned for ''SS'' reinforcements from four towns, and these set up roadblocks{{sfn|Kopówka|Rytel-Andrianik|2011|p=110}} and pursued escapees in cars and on horses. Partisans of the ''[[Armia Krajowa]]'' (Polish: Home Army) transported some of the surviving escaped prisoners across the [[Bug River]],<ref name="Śląski-PAX">{{Cite book |author=Śląski, Jerzy |url=http://alija.4me.pl/pdf/Pod_gwiazda_Dawida.pdf |title=VII. Pod Gwiazdą Dawida |work= |publisher=PAX, Warsaw |year=1990 |isbn=83-01-04946-4 |pages=8–9 |language=pl |trans-title=Under the Star of David |chapter=Polska Walcząca, Vol. IV: Solidarni |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004220216/http://alija.4me.pl/pdf/Pod_gwiazda_Dawida.pdf |archive-date=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> while others were [[Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust|helped and fed by Polish villagers]].{{sfn|Smith|2010}} Of the 700 Sonderkommando who took part in the revolt, 100 managed to survive and escape from the camp, and around 70 of these are known to have survived the war.<ref name="BBC-Easton">{{Citation |last=Easton |first=Adam |date=4 August 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23557979 |title=Treblinka survivor recalls suffering and resistance |publisher=BBC News, Treblinka, Poland |access-date=24 March 2019 |archive-date=13 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113010418/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23557979 |url-status=live }}</ref> These include [[Richard Glazar]], [[Chil Rajchman]], [[Jankiel Wiernik]], and [[Samuel Willenberg]], who co-wrote the ''Treblinka Memoirs''.<ref name="remember-me">{{cite web |url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/treblinka/treblinkarememberme.html |title=Alphabetical Listing of [better known] Treblinka Survivors and Victims |publisher=Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team H.E.A.R.T |year=2010 |access-date=30 August 2013 |author=Archer, Noah S. |display-authors=etal |archive-date=9 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120809204553/http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/treblinka/treblinkarememberme.html |url-status=live }} ''Also in:'' {{cite book |url=http://www.treblinka.bho.pl/index.php?Itemid=48&id=48&option=com_content&task=view |title=The list of Treblinka survivors, with expert commentary in Polish |year=1979 |publisher=Muzeum Walki i Męczeństwa w Treblince |isbn=0896040097 |id=''Source of data:'' [[Alexander Donat|Donat]] (1979), ''The death camp Treblinka.'' New York, pp. 279–291. |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922022111/http://www.treblinka.bho.pl/index.php?Itemid=48&id=48&option=com_content&task=view |archive-date=22 September 2013 }}</ref>
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