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Lyrics to the Treblinka Song

As the page is protected I cannot add these lyrics to the article myself, so I post them here so that anyone with the relevant priviliges may consider adding them themselves:

LYRICS (GERMAN):

Fest im Schritt und Tritt
und der Blick geradeaus,
immer fest und fest
in die Welt geschaut,
marschieren Kommandos zur Arbeit!
Für uns gibt’s heute nur Treblinka,
das unser Schicksal ist.
Drum haben wir uns auf Treblinka
eingestellt in kurzer Frist.
Wir kennen nur das Wort der Kommandanten,
und nur Gehörsamkeit und Pflicht.
Wir wollen weiter, weiter leisten,
bis dass das kleine Glück
uns einmal winkt – Hurra!

LYRICS (ENGLISH):

Firm in every step
and the view straight ahead
always tight and tight
looked into the world
marching commandos to work!
For us today there is only Treblinka,
that is our destiny.
That's why we're on Treblinka
set in a short period of time.
We only know the word of the commanders,
and only obedience and duty.
We want to go on, go on,
until that little happiness
waving at us once – hooray!

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Revert the last edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treblinka_extermination_camp&oldid=1293921850 , deleting:
(The Central Database at Vad Vashem Death Place Treblinka lists 102,034 names)^[1].

There are several problems with the edit:

1. It has an obvious typo (Vad instead of Yad).
2. The correct name of the database is "The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names"
3. It's poorly and confusingly written.
4. The reference should be to the search page. Here's a link with the exact query that could be used https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/search-results?page=1&s_place_death_search_en=treblinka&t_place_death_search_en=yvSynonym
5. (This is the biggest reason.) Even if everything else was fixed, a reader unfamiliar with this YV database could be misled into thinking that it could be used as an estimate of deaths at Treblinka. The database is not a complete list of names and names are often listed without the correct place of death, if the place is known at all. (Searching for some of my relatives who were most likely murdered in Treblinka (based on other sources), Treblinka is not listed as their place of death in the database.) If the database is used as a reference, the limitations should be discussed as an explanation for why the number is so much lower than other estimates. AndyBloch (talk) 06:45, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, AndyBloch I removed mention of the 102k names list. It was probably WP:OR anyway. You are correct that this is not the same as victims killed and will confuse readers. You should get to 500 edits and then you could work on improving this article, we need more dedicated editors on holocaust topics. Zenomonoz (talk) 09:03, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

1. Yad Vashem website