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Sobibór Extermination Camp
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Nazi extermination camp in south-eastern Poland
Sobibór was a Nazi extermination camp located in southeastern Poland that was designed and operated specifically to murder large numbers of people during the Holocaust. It matters as a historical site and symbol of the systematic genocide carried out by Nazi Germany, helping us understand the scale and methods of the Holocaust.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- extermination camp
- Named after
- Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Located in
- Gmina Włodawa
- Image
- Foto genomen vanuit een wachttoren van Sobibor, met gevangenen en bewakers.jpg
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- catalog code
- camps/2031
- Commons category
- Sobibór extermination camp
- topic's main category
- Category:Sobibor extermination camp
- exact match
- data.niod.nl/WO2_Thesaurus/kampen/4855
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- P8168
- Wing
- director / manager
- Franz Stangl
- native label
- Das Vernichtungslager Sobibor
- related category
- Category:Sobibor extermination camp survivors
- category for people who died here
- Category:People who died in Sobibor extermination camp
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Encyclopedic overview
Sobibor (/ˈsoʊbɪbɔːr/ SOH-bi-bor; Polish: Sobibór [sɔˈbibur]; German: [ˈzoːbibɔʁ]) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland.
As an extermination camp rather than a concentration camp, Sobibor existed for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. The vast majority of prisoners were gassed within hours of arrival. Those not killed immediately were forced to assist in the operation of the camp, and few survived more than a few months. In total, some 170,000 to 250,000 people were murdered at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec.
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