Holocaust
★ Deep Cut
1943
Sobibor - The Camp Nazis Tried to Erase
📍 Sobibor, Poland
On October 14, 1943, Jewish prisoners at Sobibor escaped after killing 11 SS men with axes and knives. Approximately 300 escaped through minefields, only about 50 survived. The Nazis demolished Sobibor, built a farm over it, and planted trees attempting to erase it. The camps existence was not widely known until the 1960s.
Sources
Sobibor Museum, Yad Vashem