Małkinia Górna is a large village in

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Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. Th ...

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, with about 6,000 inhabitants (2005). It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Małkinia Górna. Małkinia is a railway junction. There, the main line between

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and Białystok crosses with the less important line between

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and

Siedlce Siedlce [] ( yi, שעדליץ ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants (). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city is situated b ...

. During World War II the

Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp ...

was located nearby. Prisoners were often held in locked trains at the Małkinia railway station awaiting transport into the camp.Alan Heat
The route to Treblinka
on

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Jewish Community in Małkinia Górna
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