Sobibor : a History of a Nazi Death Camp
Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there. Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibör is not well documented and, were it not for an extraordinary revolt on 14 October 1943, we would know little about it. On that day, prisoners staged a remarkable uprising in which 300 men and women escaped. The author identifies only forty-seven
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9781472589064, 9781472589057, 1472589068, 147258905X
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Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Author's Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Prelude to the 'Final Solution'; 3 Construction and Staffing; 4 The Trains; 5 Arrival and Selection; 6 The Arbeitshäftlinge; 7 The Gas Chambers; 8 Dorohucza and Lublin; 9 Escape Attempts; 10 The Revolt; 11 After the Revolt; 12 Transports, Deportees and Death Counts; The Netherlands; Czechoslovakia; France; The Soviet Union; Germany and Austria; General Government; 13 Sobibór Survivors; 14 The Perpetrators; Index