Sobibor was a Nazi extermination camp in occupied eastern Poland, near the village of Sobibor, built in spring 1942 as part of Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder the Jews of the General Government. Transports of people arrived by train from Poland, the Netherlands, France, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and other countries, and most were killed on arrival in gas chambers. Well over a hundred thousand people were murdered there, almost all of them Jews. On 14 October 1943 prisoners rose up, led by Alexander Pechersky, a Soviet Jewish officer, and Leon Feldhendler, killing several SS men; about three hundred escaped, though many were hunted down. The Germans then closed the camp and tried to hide its traces.
Before and after
- April 1942Bataan Death March
- 12 April 1942Birth of Jacob Zuma
- 18 April 1942Doolittle Raid
- 24 April 1942Birth of Barbra Streisand
- May 1942Construction of Sobibór Extermination Camp
- from 26 May 1942 to 21 June 1942Battle of Gazala
- from 26 May 1942 to 11 June 1942Battle of Bir Hakeim
- from 31 May 1942 to 8 June 1942Attack on Sydney Harbour
- from June 1942 to February 1943Rise of White Rose
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