Horrible Killings

This same process of the Jewish men, women and children that would arrive in Sobibor would go on and on, one group after another, and for a staggering eighteen months. Over 250,000 people lost their lives in the gas chambers of Sobibor, and their bodies were left in shallowly dug trenches, which were later on burned.

The Revolt

Those that were imprisoned at Sobibor and not immediately executed on their arrival had heard about the chance that the camp was going to close. They decided to revolt against the regime, in the hopes that they could finally escape the nightmare that they were in. So on October 14, 1943, 600 people took up arms, while some of them were even able to kill eleven SS officers and get to the fences. Half of them were able to get over them and out of the minefields that surrounded the camp.