Extermination camp was located in the district of Lublin, in Nazi occupied Poland, close to the village and railway station of Sobibor. The Nazis established the camp in March 1942. Approximately half a million Jews were murdered there between April 1942 and October 1943. This camp was closed down at the end of 1943 after a prisoners’ uprising in October which took place same year.
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Sobibor
Extermination camp was located in the district of Lublin, in Nazi occupied Poland, close to…
Kazimierz Dolny
The Jewish settlement in the royal town of Kazimierz dates back to the early medieval…
Majdanek
Majdanek camp is one of the six death camps built by the German/Nazi occupation forces…
Belzec
Located in the Lublin district, Belzec was initially a slave labor camp. The construction of…