Sobibor

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Sobibor

• By Neil Benson

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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.

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Trains

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

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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.

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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.

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Gas Chambers

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

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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.

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Camp Guards

• The camps Germans or Austrians. They represented
  many different ethnic groups and nationalitys.
  The guards were usually armed.

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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.

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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.

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References

• Sobibor. The Forgotten Camps. United
• States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• lthttp//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
• jsource/Holocaust/Sobibor.htmlgt.
• Sobibor Tracks Picture . 3-14-09.
• lthttp//cghs.dadeschools.net/ib_holocaust2001/Fin
  al_Solution/resistance/RailroadSobibor.gifgt
• Sobibor Camp Picture. 3-14-09.
• lthttp//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/sobib
  or/sobibor1.jpggt
• Rail Car Picture. 3-15-09.
• lthttp//www.historia.lukow.pl/wspomnienia/zydzi/S
  hoah20-20The20Holocaust_pliki/o16.jpggt
• Gas Chamber Picture . 3-15-09.
• lthttp//www.scrapbookpages.com/dachau/GasChamber.
  jpggt
• Extermination Camp Sobibor. Hans Vanderwerff.
  3-15-09.
• lthttp//www.cympm.com/sobibor.htmlgt

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References (cont.)

• Sobibor Camp Guards Picture. USHMM. 3-17-09.
• lthttp//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/sobib
  or/sobibor20funeral.jpggt
• Sobibor Aftermath. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
  3-17-09.
• lthttp//www.holocaustresearchproject.net/ar/sobib
  or.htmlgt
• Sobibor Overhead Picture. 3-17-09.
• lthttp//www.vho.org/D/gzz/BallSobibor.jpggt
• Sobibor Memorial. Jennifer Rosenberg. 3-17-09.
• lthttp//history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/
  aa050899.htmgt

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The End

• Thank You For Watching!
• -Neil Fis Benson