Sobibor

By: Neil Benson

Sobibor

Sobibor was established in March 1942. There were 700 Jewish workers to service the camp. It was initially two camps divided into three parts. Sobibor was the second extermination camp to come into operation. The man in charge was Franz Stangl.

Trains

The people going to Sobibor came in by the thousands. They came in on a train. The railroads were throughout Europe.

About the Camp

Sobibor camp was a 400x600 rectangle. The camp was surrounded by a three meter high barbed wire fence. In every corner of the rectangle there were wooden watch towers.

Extermination

Sobibor was one of the few extermination camps in Europe. Most of the other camps were work camps. The people that came here usually ended up dead.

Gas Chambers

The camp had six gas chambers. The six chambers enabled them to kill 1200 people at a time.

Escape

On October in 1943 the Jews revolted. 11 SS men and a number of Ukrainian men were killed. Three hundred Jews escaped; of that three hundred, only less than fifty survived till after the war.

Camp Guards

The camps Germans or Austrians. They represented many different ethnic groups and nationality’s. The guards were usually armed.

After…

After the outbreak in October, Heinrich Himmler ordered the camp closed. Stangl then was found out and arrested with life imprisonment and died in prison in 1971.

Memorial

At Sobibor, some 250,000 people were killed. At the memorial, there is a statue of a women holding her child by her side and looking toward the sky. The memorial also consists of a museum and the old train station.

References

Sobibor. The Forgotten Camps. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

<http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ jsource/Holocaust/Sobibor.html>.

Sobibor Tracks Picture . 3-14-09.<http://cghs.dadeschools.net/ib_holocaust2001/Final_Solution/resistance/RailroadSobibor.gif>

Sobibor Camp Picture. 3-14-09.<http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/sobibor/sobibor1.jpg>

Rail Car Picture. 3-15-09.<http://www.historia.lukow.pl/wspomnienia/zydzi/Shoah%20-%20The%20Holocaust_pliki/o16.jpg>

Gas Chamber Picture . 3-15-09.<http://www.scrapbookpages.com/dachau/GasChamber.jpg>

Extermination Camp Sobibor. Hans Vanderwerff. 3-15-09. <http://www.cympm.com/sobibor.html>

Escape from Sobibor Movie Cover . 3-15-09.<http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Escape_From_Sobibor.jpg/200px-Escape_From_Sobibor.jpg>

References (cont.)

Sobibor Camp Guards Picture. USHMM. 3-17-09.

<http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/sobibor/sobibor%20funeral.jpg>

Sobibor Aftermath. Holocaust Encyclopedia. 3-17-09.

<http://www.holocaustresearchproject.net/ar/sobibor.html>

Sobibor Overhead Picture. 3-17-09.

<http://www.vho.org/D/gzz/BallSobibor.jpg>

Sobibor Memorial. Jennifer Rosenberg. 3-17-09.

<http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa050899.htm>

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-Neil Fis Benson