Scenes from a Visit to the Sobibor Extermination Camp on 25 September 2015 during a motorhome tour of Eastern Poland
Approximately 170,000 people were murdered at Sobibor on the River Bug between March 1942 and October 1943. The great majority were Jews brought by the trainload in cattle trucks from many parts of German-occupied Europe where they had been concentrated in ghettos. The victims were transferred from the unloading ramp directly into one of four gas chambers, pausing only to leave all their belongings including their clothes.The killing was carried out with the exhaust fumes from a stationary 200 horsepower, 8-cylinder, water-cooled petrol engine.
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Sobibor are memorials to the victims. At the time of our visit, forensic archeologists were working on the site: read this excellent account of their work and the history of Sobibor in the English-language online edition of the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Sobibor are memorials to the victims. At the time of our visit, forensic archeologists were working on the site: read this excellent account of their work and the history of Sobibor in the English-language online edition of the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
