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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi German extermination camp
Operation Reinhard extermination camp
prisoner uprising
closedAfter Sobibor self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sobibor uprising
hasMemorial Sobibor self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sobibor extermination camp museum
locatedIn General Government
District of Lublin
surface form: Lublin District

occupied Poland
locatedNear Bug River
Sobibor self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sobibór village

Włodawa
location Sobibor self-linksurface differs
memorialStatus Holocaust memorial site
notableSurvivor Esther Raab
Jules Schelvis
Thomas Blatt
operatedBy Reich Main Security Office
surface form: Reich Security Main Office

SS
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: SS-Totenkopfverbände
organizedBy Alexander Pechersky
Leon Feldhendler
partOf German occupation of Poland
surface form: 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
Sinti
surface form: Roma and Sinti

Soviet prisoners of war

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book "Into That Darkness" by Gitta Sereny mainSubject Sobibor
subject surface form: Into That Darkness
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
book "Into That Darkness" by Gitta Sereny setting Sobibor
subject surface form: Into That Darkness
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Holocaust in Slovakia deportedTo Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
SS personnel of Aktion Reinhard usedCamp Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Nazi deportation of Roma destination Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Pechersky location Sobibor
subject surface form: Sobibor extermination camp uprising
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibor extermination camp uprising location Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Westerbork transit camp deportationDestination Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Dutch Jews deportationTo Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibor extermination camp
Aktion 1005 notableSite Sobibor
this entity surface form: Sobibór extermination camp