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5 days ago · The most notorious extermination camps included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Sobibor. These camps were equipped with gas chambers designed to kill large numbers of people quickly and efficiently. Zyklon B, a cyanide-based pesticide, was commonly used for this purpose.
1 day ago · The most comprehensive and premier work on Operation Reinhard is Israeli historian Yitzhak Arad’s Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (1987). ). In it he chronicled the history of the operation from start to finish beginning with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the “Holocaust by bullets” perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen in the wake of Hitler’s ...
2 days ago · Discover Sobibor, a place of remembrance and resistance. Learn about the museum's efforts to honor Holocaust victims and preserve history.
2 days ago · The film includes the incredible escape from Sobibor, in which Russian soldiers who were Jewish combined with Polish Jewish prisoners in a plan to capitalize on the punctuality of the Nazis and ...
4 days ago · Former SS officer Bruno Dey covers his face on Nov. 15, 2019, before the beginning of his trial in Hamburg. The trial is the focus of Tobias Buck's new book.
22 hours ago · Buck tells their stories, too, among them Thomas Walther, who decided to take on the case of Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk by proving not that he'd been involved in any one specific killing but ...
4 days ago · Excavated In Sobibor, The Pendent of Karoline Cohn from Frankfurt. For ten years, Yoram Haimi, an archaeologist from the Israel Antiquities Authority, excavated at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. It was an extraordinary archaeological excavation conducted before the construction of a new visitor center at the camp.
