Sobibor

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Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and where a notable prisoner uprising occurred in 1943.


Statements (53)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi German extermination camp
Operation Reinhard extermination camp
prisoner uprising
closedAfter Sobibor uprising
commandant Franz Reichleitner
Franz Stangl
commemoratedBy annual remembrance ceremonies
memorials to victims
country Nazi Germany
date 1943-10-14
demolished 1943
endDate 1943-10
estimatedNumberOfVictims approximately 170000
up to 250000
gasChamberMethod carbon monoxide poisoning
gasChamberSource engine exhaust
hasEvent Sobibor uprising
hasMemorial Sobibor extermination camp museum
locatedIn General Government
Lublin District
occupied Poland
locatedNear Bug River
Sobibór village
Włodawa
location Sobibor
memorialStatus Holocaust memorial site
notableSurvivor Esther Raab
Jules Schelvis
Thomas Blatt
operatedBy Reich Security Main Office
SS
SS-Totenkopfverbände
organizedBy Alexander Pechersky
Leon Feldhendler
partOf Holocaust in Poland
Operation Reinhard
purpose extermination of Jews
implementation of the Final Solution
result closure of the camp
mass escape attempt
partial destruction of camp facilities
startDate 1942-05
transportedFrom Austria
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Slovakia
victimGroup Jews
Polish civilians
Roma and Sinti
Soviet prisoners of war

Referenced by (29)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
District of Lublin ("Sobibór extermination camp")
General Government ("Sobibor extermination camp")
General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) ("Sobibor extermination camp")
contains
Holocaust
Nazi Germany
Nazi camp system ("Sobibor extermination camp")
notableCamp
Operation Reinhard ("Sobibor extermination camp")
Reinhard program authorities ("camp commandant offices of Sobibor")
hasPart
Włodawa ("Sobibór")
Włodawa ("Sobibor extermination camp site")
near
Sobibor ("Sobibor uprising")
closedAfter
Franz Stangl ("Sobibor extermination camp")
commanded
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands ("Sobibor extermination camp")
deportationTo
Final Solution
exterminationCamp
Sobibor ("Sobibor uprising")
hasEvent
Sobibor ("Sobibor extermination camp museum")
hasMemorial
Sobibor ("Sobibór village")
locatedNear
Sobibor uprising
location
Porajmos ("Sobibor extermination camp")
notableSite
Reinhard program authorities ("Sobibor extermination camp")
operates
Alexander Pechersky ("Sobibor extermination camp")
placeOfImprisonment
Belzec
relatedCamp
Franz Stangl ("Sobibor extermination camp")
servedAt
Kurt Franz ("Sobibor extermination camp")
servedIn
Samudaripen ("Sobibor extermination camp")
tookPlaceIn
German occupation of Poland ("Sobibor extermination camp")
usedFacility
Jules Schelvis ("Sobibor extermination camp")
wasDeportedTo
Lorenz Hackenholt ("Sobibor extermination camp")
workLocation
Jules Schelvis ("Vernietigingskamp Sobibor")
wrote

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