Description: Sobibór
Nazi Death Camp
April, 1942 - October 14, 1943
site of the most successful prisoner revolt and escape from any Nazi camp during World War II
• As part of Operation Reinhard, Sobibór was a Nazi German extermination camp named after the village outside which the camp was built, now part of Lublin district in Poland. It was one of six extermination camps
• Jews, including Jewish Soviet POWs, and possibly Gypsies were transported to Sobibór by rail and suffocated in gas chambers that were fed by the exhaust of a petrol engine. At least 250,000 people were killed in Sobibór. A memorial and museum are at the site today.
• Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka and Sobibór (March-September 1942), was eventually arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison in 1971.
(sources cited in KMZ file) |
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