SOBIBOR EXTERMINATION CAMP

SOBIBOR

• It was a nazi extermination camp.
• It also housed Russian prisoners of war.
• Sobibor was strictly used for killing the people.

OFFICERS & LOCATION

• SS-Obersturmführer Franz Stangl was in charge.
• Franz was appointed by Heinrich Himmler.
• Sobibór was the site of a successful uprising by Jewish prisoners.
• It was located in sobibor government (occupied Poland).

CREATION AND LIBERATION

• It was created in 1942.
• It was liberated in the summer of 1944.
• Heinrich Himmler ordered the camp to be closed before the 2 uprising.

PRISONERS

• Polish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Soviet, Belorussian,
• German, Czech, and Russian, were the types of prisoners.
• 50 prisoners escaped successfully.
• 300-450 others tried to escape but failed, and were killed.
• Up to 200,000 - 250,000 people were murdered at Sobibór.

GAS CHAMBERS

• They did most of the killing from gas chambers.
• They needed to find more gas and ways to kill.
• They found out about carbon monoxide and used that.
• They got the carbon monoxide from exhaust pipes.
• They also got carbon monoxide also from tank engines.

SHUTTING DOWN

• There was talk of the camp shutting down, in spring in 1934.
• The rumor of the camp shutting down was untrue it actually got bigger.
• When the prisoners heard of the shutting down they started to plan tunnels.
• A lot of people tried tunnels, none of the people in the tunnels really survived.
• Most people who survived, survived by hiding.