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The Sobibor Death Camp - History, Biographies, Remembrance (Paperback)
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The Sobibor Death Camp - History, Biographies, Remembrance (Paperback)
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The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by
the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with
intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the
construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern
Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second
extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was
built near the remote village of Treblinka. Sobibor was similarly
designed as the first camp in Belzec, it was regarded as an
'overflow' camp for Belzec. This account of the Nazis' remorseless
and relentless production line of killing at the Sobibor death camp
tells of one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. Chris
Webb's painstakingly researched volume ranges from the survivors
and the victims to the SS men who carried out the atrocities. What
makes this work special is the research which has been gathered on
the survivors, who by good fortune, courage, and determination
survived Sobibor and built new lives for themselves, new families,
but bore the scars of this terrible place for all of their lives.
Closing a gap in the existing literature, Webb focuses on the
victims and presents details of their lives which have been found
and re-tells them to keep their memory alive, to show they are not
forgotten. The cruel and barbaric murder process is described in
great detail, as well as the confiscation of the valuables and
possessions of the unfortunate Jews who crossed the threshold of
this man-made hell. One cannot fail to be moved by the personal
accounts of those who survived, their loved ones perished in this
factory of death. The book covers the construction of the death
camp, the physical layout of the camp, as remembered by both the
Jewish inmates and the SS staff who served there, and the personal
recollections that detail the day-to-day experiences of the
prisoners and the SS. The courageous revolt by the prisoners on 14
October 1943 is re-told by the prisoners and the German SS, with
detailed accounts of the revolt and its aftermath. The post-war
fate of the perpetrators, or more precisely those that were brought
to trial, and information regarding the more recent history of the
site itself concludes this book. There is a large photographic
section of rare and some unpublished photographs and documents from
the author's private archive.
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