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Stone 215

SOBIBOR 

THIS DEATH CAMP WAS ESTABLISHED TO MURDER
THE JEWS OF THE LUBLIN DISTRICT OF POLAND. IN
THREE MONTHS FOLLOWING SOBIBOR’S OPENING IN
MAY 1942, NEARLY 100,000 POLISH CZECH, GERMAN
AND AUSTRIAN JEWS WERE GASSED IN THE DEATH
CAMP’S SHOWER ROOMS. CREMATION OF THE BODIES
BEGAN IN THE SUMMER OF THAT YEAR. BEFORE
THE CLOSING OF SOBIBOR 200,000 JEWS WERE
MURDERED 

IN OCTOBER 1943 SOVIET-JEWISH POW ALEKSANDR
PECHERSKY AND FORMER ZOLKIEW JUDENRAT
CHAIRMAN LEON FELDHENDLER LED 300 PRISONERS
IN AN ESCAPE ATTEMPT AFTER KILLING SEVERAL
CAMP GUARDS. MOST WHO FLED WERE QUICKLY
RECAPTURED AND KILLED AS WERE 200 INMATES
WHO HAD NOT TAKEN PART IN THE REVOLT.
AFTER THE INCIDENT THE NAZIS DECIDED TO
LIQUIDATE SOBIBOR AND MAKE IT INTO A FARM
FOR A UKRANIAN GUARD. 

UNITS OF THE RED ARMY AND THE POLISH PEOPLES
ARMY LIBERATED THE AREA NEAR THE FORMER
SOBIBOR CAMP IN THE SUMMER OF 1944.