Sobibor
Номер объектаM2009/036:008
НазваниеSobibor
Описание20 page booklet entitled Sobibor written in Dutch, produced in July 1946 by the Afwikkelingsbureau Concentratiekampen (Information Dissemination Bureau of Concentration Camps in Gravenhage). This copy was posted to Mr N de Vries in Amsterdam on the 22 April 1947. This is a very early and rare account of the atrocities in Sobibor death camp. It lists in precise detail the deportation trains from Westerbork to Sobibor, including names, numbers of people murdered in the gas chamber and dates of departure.
Дата 1946-07
Наименованиеpamphlets
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 159.00 mm
height: 244.00 mm
Язык
- Dutch This is a partial translation:
The booklet explains that Sobibor was not a work camp but a death camp. It started in 1941 and by 1943 had sent 10,000 Polish, Russian and Austrian Jews to the gas chambers. It was specifically a Jewish camp. From 1943 it was the death camp for the Jews deported from the Netherlands. Sobibor is situated 80km to the East of Lublin near the old Polish Russian border of 1939. It lists the Dutch deportees, in total, 33 063 Dutch Jews. Out of this number 19 people survived, all between the ages of 17 and 35 years.
On trains of 17 March, 11 May and 8 June 1943, all the women and children were immediately gassed. Sobibor had one gas chamber that held 600 people. It was designed to look like shower stalls. The baggage of the transportees was sorted by inmates and goods sent to Germany. There was no selection process there; as soon as possible all inmates were gassed.
On train of 10 March, 60 young men and women were sought for work detail. The rest were immediately gassed. In October 1943 transports out of Holland – 800 people – were sent to Sobibor but all were put to work in district Lublin.
From April 1943 to end July 1943 regular every Friday a transport from Westerbork and people were immediately gassed. Indeed all transports started on a Tuesday in Westerbork and ended in Sobibor on a Friday, except for two which left on a Wednesday. The transport took three days to reach Sobibor.
On 6 and 7 June there were two extra transports of children who left from Vught, near Westerbork.
Those selected for work details were either kept for duties in connection with gassing or sent to neighbouring camps in the district of Lublin.
Only 19 Dutch people survived (3 men and 16 women). Only two had been in the camp; the rest arrived as the camp was closed.
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection