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This list is as complete as current records allow. 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 . The vast majority of the people taken to ...
On June 3, 2019, Semyon Rosenfeld, the last living Holocaust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp, died at the age of 97 in Israel. Rosenfeld was born Ternivka in 1922 and, in 1940, joined the Red Army. While he was fighting the Germans, his family was killed by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave near ...
The majority of the survivors among Sobibor's Arbeitshäftlinge survived as a result of their camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943. Dutch historian Jules Schelvis estimated that 158 inmates perished in the revolt, killed by the guards and the minefield surrounding the camp, and that a further 107 were re-captured and murdered by the SS ...
The Sobibor Uprising (in German: Aufstand von Sobibór) 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.
Serious students of film also may know Claude Lanzmann’s 2001 documentary about the revolt, Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures ( Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4PM ). Seventy-five years later, this history presses on us more than ever as Holocaust survivors dwindle and anti-Semites feel emboldened.
Following the revolt, the camp was liquidated in October 1943 and the site demolished and disguised as a farm. The Nazis also planted hundred of trees over the area. 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 ...
Number of revolt survivors to be liberated by the Allies: 53 * Additionally, 9 Jews survived from earlier individual escapes, which makes a total of Sobibor survivors: 62 The Nazi Side: Germans and Ukrainian guards on duty at the time of the revolt: 137: Germans killed including 2 Volksdeutsche guard leaders: 12: Germans wounded: 1: Ukrainians ...
