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Sobibor (/ ˈ s oʊ b ɪ b ɔːr /, Polish:) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland.
- Operation Reinhard
Cumulative murders at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka from...
- List of survivors of Sobibor
There were 58 known Sobibor survivors: 48 male and 10...
- Escape from Sobibor
It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi...
- Operation Reinhard
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.
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- Prisoner Life in The Camp
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Operation Reinhard
Sobibor was one of four extermination camps established as part of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust. In September of 1939, the Nazis invaded and occupied Poland. After that, all across Europe, the Nazis began deporting Jews from ghettos and sending them to forced labourcamps.
Layout
Sobibor was surrounded by double barbed wire fences which were thatched with pine branches in order to block the view inside. At its southeast corner, it had two side-by-side gates. One was for trains; the other was for foot traffic and vehicles. The site was divided into five compounds: the Vorlager and four Lagers numbered I-IV.
Because Sobibor was an extermination camp, very few prisoners actually lived there. While survivors of Auschwitz use the term "selected" to mean being selected for murder, at Sobibor being "selected" meant being selected to live, at least temporarily. Around 600 slave labourers were 'selected' to live and were forced to help the Nazis run the camp....
Bialowitz, Philip; Bialowitz, Joseph (2010). A Promise at Sobibór. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-24800-0.Blatt, Thomas (1997). From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1302-2.Freiberg, Dov (2007). To Survive Sobibor. Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978-965-229-388-6.Lower, Wendy (2011). The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 978-0-75912-078-5.Sobibor, Nazi German extermination camp located in a forest near the village of Sobibór in the present-day Polish province of Lublin. Built in March 1942, it operated from May 1942 until October 1943, and its gas chambers killed a total of about 250,000 Jews, mostly from Poland and occupied areas of the Soviet Union.
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.
