Sobibor uprising | |||||||
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Part of resistance during the Holocaust | |||||||
![]() Group of Sobibor insurgents. In the upper row, first from the right, is Leon Felhendler | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() Trawnikimänner |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
17 Germans ~120 Trawniki men | 500–600 prisoners | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 Germans 2 Trawniki men | ~300 prisoners |
The Sobibor Uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on October 14, 1943, during World War II and the Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was the second uprising in an extermination camp, partly successful, by Jewish prisoners against the SS forces, following the revolt in Treblinka.
SS soldiers executed up to 250,000 Jews using gas at the Sobibor extermination camp. Most of the victims were from Poland, about 33,000 were from the Netherlands, and several thousand from Germany. After this uprising, the SS no longer used the death camp. The Nazis destroyed the camp down to its foundations and leveled the camp area. To cover up the crimes committed at the site, they established an inconspicuous farm in its place and planted a pine forest over the remnants of the camp.
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