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The Sobibor uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on 14 October 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 .
Except where noted, the survivors were Arbeitshäftlinge, inmates who performed slave-labour for the daily operation of the camp, who escaped during the camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943. The vast majority of the people taken to Sobibor did not survive but were shot or gassed immediately upon arrival.
This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to ...
A highly fictionalized version of the Sobibor revolt was depicted in the 1978 American TV miniseries Holocaust. The revolt was dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, directed by Jack Gold and adapted from the book by Richard Rashke. The film's consultants included survivors Thomas Blatt, Shlomo Szmajzner, and Esther Raab.
Committed suicide in December 1942 on vacation in Berlin from his Sobibor duty [6] Rudolf Beckmann: SS-Oberscharführer: Staff sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8] Gerhardt Börner: SS-Untersturmführer: Second lieutenant [11] Paul Bredow: SS-Unterscharführer: Corporal, managed the "Lazarett" killing station [6] Max Bree: Killed in the ...
An award-winning documentary about the escape was made by Claude Lanzmann, entitled Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures. The revolt was also dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, in which Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for his portrayal of Pechersky. Pechersky ...
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt (born Tomasz Blatt; April 15, 1927 – October 31, 2015) was a Holocaust survivor, [2] writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943.
Simjon Rosenfeld [1] (October 1, 1922 [2] – June 3, 2019 [3]) was a survivor of the Sobibor death camp and a participant in the prisoner revolt which took place in that camp. [4] Born in Baranowicze, Poland (now Belarus), in 1940 he was recruited to the Red Army. [5] In 1941, the Germans captured him and sent him to build a labor camp in Minsk.