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Only days after the revolt, Shlomo Szmajzner and a group of twenty one escapees were unexpectedly surrounded in the forest by supposedly friendly partisans. Shlomo's rifle was taken, they were robbed and most were murdered.
- Minsk
Minsk is the capital of Belarus. From the beginning of the...
- History & Overview of Sobibor
The number of survivors of Sobibor is still unknown and...
- Minsk
There were 58 known Sobibor survivors: 48 male and 10 female. Except where noted, the survivors were Arbeitshäftlinge, inmates who performed slave-labour for the daily operation of the camp, who escaped during the camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943.
NameBirthDeathAge At DeathSchlomo Alster[1]December 1, 1908March 199283Moshe Bahir[1]July 19, 19272002[2]75Antonius Bardach[1]May 16, 19091959 (approximately) [citation needed]50December 25, 1925August 6, 2016[2]90On October 14, 1943, prisoners in Sobibor killed 11 members of the camp's SS staff, including the camp’s deputy commandant Johann Niemann. While close to 300 prisoners escaped, breaking through the barbed wire and risking their lives in the minefield surrounding the camp, only about 50 would survive the war. Photo.
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.
In the upper row, first from the right, is Leon Felhendler. The Sobibor uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on October 14, 1943, during World War II and the Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was the second uprising in an extermination camp, partly successful, by Jewish prisoners against ...
The number of survivors of Sobibor is still unknown and varies in different sources. Yad Vashem says about 50 of the Jews who escaped during the uprising survived. Another source cited by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum says the number was 47.
During the one year and a half in which the Sobibór killing centre operated, at least 167,000 people were murdered there, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; [7] virtually all of the victims were Jews, mostly from Poland, France and the Netherlands.
