Why did Jankiel Wiernik plagiarize an earlier report?

[Nessie]

The plan is on page 2 of a "Year in Treblinka", in the introduction, not written by Wiernik, but by someone likely from the publishers. They have plagiarised it from the earlier source or misattributed it to Wiernik. Whether the person who wrote the introduction made up the claim about Wiernik drawing from memory, or they were incorrectly told that, or Wiernik claimed he drew it, we do not know.

The map is also on pages 32-33 of A yor in Ṭreblinḳe, clearly not in the introduction. It is also described by Wiernik in the Polish versions where he wrote "I sketched a map of the crime scene to show the world.". This is translated in the English version as "present to the world a description of the inferno and a sketch of the layout".

http://deathcamps.org/treblinka/maps.html also attributes this map to Wiernik.

Isn't it ridiculous then to claim it's not Wiernik? You're theorizing that a publisher committed the plagiarism, but that has no basis and contradicts what was actually said.

Even to accept your theory, wouldn't that be a fact of enormous importance? The Holocaust authorities of that time, such as they were, felt comfortable taking a map from one person and attributing it to another to better sell their propaganda. In one of the most well-known Holocaust memoirs. No one questioned it or called it out, Wiernik never disowned it, it was just allowed to stand like that unremarked apparently through to the current day. This gives rise to the question what other major facts have they misrepresented and lied about?

Is this not the "sketched" map? It is "WEIRNIK MAP #2" frrom the Mapping Treblinka site;

http://deathcamps.org/treblinka/pic/bmap22.jpg

The other map is not sketched, it is a drawn plan, like an architect would submit. I think it is either not by Wiernik, or he traced and copied it from the original, or it is misattributed to him, in a mix-up by the publisher.

[Nessie]

The death camps website also offers this map as Wiernik's "Model Map". In comparison to his 1946 map, you can see it still has the same overall wrong layout, but he made some minor alterations. Some features moved around like the locations of watchtowers. Some new things were added like the elaborate roofed entry gate.

They all have approximately the same layout, as seen on Mapping Treblinka, which orientates them the same way, with north to the left.

http://deathcamps.org/treblinka/maps.html

Wiernik map #1, is not of the camp as a whole and it is the exception, orientated with north to the top. But that does not work with the railway destinations. It is clearly copied from the 1942 report, but we do not know exactly who by.

You, of course, will blow this up into a major revelation, claiming it is evidence of a conspiracy. You will not accept that it can just as easily have a mundane, human error, explanation.

[Nessie]

Personally, I don't think he was EVER AT TREBLINKA.

I think the man is a propagandist plant.

It's not as demonstrable for him as it is for Wiesel.

He correctly named staff and other prisoners and went with the 1945 Polish investigation to the site. He correctly located where the grave and the buried gas chambers were located.

[Stubble]

The only time Warnick got it 'right', or some approximation there of, was when he was in a room with other witnesses.



http://www.deathcamps.org/treblinka/pic/bmap20.jpg

After that, he went straight back to the wrong layout for his 'model'.

It's also hard to deny the professionalism of the series of question marks in the woods on the first map. That's how they teach it in architectural engineering school, I'm sure.