This is equivalent to a forest 6.4 km long and 1 km wide. The cremation actions, which are supposed to have lasted from early March until late August 1943, would have required 2,800 wood cutters per day, assuming that it takes one man to cut down one tree, cut the branches off, and saw it up. Further, the 875,000 bodies would have left 2,900 tons of ashes in addition to 1,000 tons of wood ash. If the Soviets and the Poles had found only a fraction of these ashes, bones, and teeth, they would have drummed an international commission together with a huge blare of propaganda, and the entire world would have been presented with the proof of German bestiality. Quite undisputedly, hundreds of thousands of Jews were deported to Treblinka after the defeat of the revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto revolt alone.
Revisionists assume that it was a transit camp.
Nor was it a work camp, since it was much too small to hold to these masses of people. The transit camp theory is also supported by the fact that Jews are known to have been deported from Treblinka to other camps. We cannot exclude this possibility. It seems much more probable to us that the documents were either destroyed by the Soviets or the Poles, or that they were stored in a safe place because they contradicted the extermination legend. Some interesting revelations may be expected over the coming years.