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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 ...
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.
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 .
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 ...
Gustav Franz Wagner [1] (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). [2] [3] Wagner was a deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where 200,000-250,000 Jews were murdered in the camp's gas chambers during Operation Reinhard [citation needed].
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel [1] [3] (20 August 1911 – 2 September 1996) [4] was an SS noncommissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp.. After the Second World War, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but he was ultimately released after serving 16 years in prison.