Sobibor extermination camp
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Sobibor 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 Ger
Sobibor extermination camp, summer 1943
SS-Hauptsturmführer Richard Thomalla, who oversaw the initial construction of Sobibor
The Vorlager's quaint buildings such as the Merry Flea (pictured in summer 1943) helped conceal the purpose of the camp from new arrivals.
The entrance to the Erbhof in Lager II
Sobibor uprising
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The Sobibor uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on 14 October 1943, during World War II and the Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was the second
Sobibor extermination camp
…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. In the first phase, teams of prisoners were to discreetly assassinate…
Group of Sobibor insurgents, with Leon Felhendler at the top right
Sobibor camp, 1943