In Fiction
Helen Darville's 1994 novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper, follows the stories of Ukrainian guards stationed at Treblinka. The book generated extensive controversy due to its award of the Miles Franklin prize, as claims of anti-Semitism surfaced once it was revealed that the author was not of Ukrainian heritage.
Treblinka figures as an historical setting in Robert J. Sawyer's 1997 novel Frameshift. In August, 1943, some of the Jewish prisoners work as corpse bearers, carrying the dead from the gas chamber and witnessing atrocities by the Nazi camp guards. Sawyer describes how some prisoners kill the guards and escape.
A similar escape occurs in The Strain, a 2009 novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan; a carpenter named Abraham Setrakian barely escapes murder by both Nazis and a vampire.
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