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This article is a brief reconsideration of a powerful example of armed resistance from one of the less familiar Nazi death camps, Sobibor. The story, gripping, inspiring, and heartbreaking at the same time, is of the uprising of October 14, 1943.
Sobibór was one of the three extermination camps in the German-occupied area of Eastern Poland created by the Nazis as part of Operation Reinhardt . The camp opened in the spring of 1942 and operated until October 1943. It was made up of three smaller areas known as sub-camps.
Jan 28, 2020 · 28 January 2020. ushmm. A Sobibor gateway says "SS Sonderkommando" - the name for special death camp units. Previously unseen photos from the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland have...
Jan 28, 2020 · (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) BERLIN — Historians in Germany have unearthed hundreds of photos of the notorious Sobibor death camp and other key sites in the Nazi extermination machine,...
Feb 20, 2024 · Brief Information. Sobibor extermination camp was established in 1942, located in a forest near the village of Sobibor in the present-day Polish province of Lublin. It was the second killing center of Operation Reinhard, the plan implemented by the SS to murder Jews in the General Government. of Poland, the area not annexed to Germany.
Between May 1942 and October 1943, an estimated 250,000 men, women and children were killed in Sobibor. Built to carry out murder on an industrial scale, by the spring of 1943, the camp’s gas chambers were starting to be used less frequently as the numbers of Jews being sent to their deaths began to dwindle.
In total, some 170,000 to 250,000 people were murdered at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec. The camp ceased operation after a prisoner revolt which took place on 14 October 1943. The plan for the revolt involved two phases.
