This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to 300,000. For practical reasons it is not possible to list all the people murdered at the camp. The operatives of the Nazi regime not only robbed Jews of their earthly possessions and their lives but attempted to eradicate all traces of their existence as they engaged in the genocidal policies of the Final Solution.Sobibor: Chronology at the USHMMHistory Sobibor at the Dutch Sobibor Foundation.
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Name Date of birth Date of death Age Nationality Faith NotesMozes Jacobs in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishGymnast. Participated at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.Walter M. Poppert, in the German Federal Archives Memorial Book.GermanHusband of Gertrud Poppert née Schönborn. In 1943, he was foreman of the Waldkommando in the Sobibor Extermination camp.Max van Dam in Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchArtistGymnastDutchJewishGymnast. Her husband Barend Dresden was murdered at Auschwitz on .Eva DresdenJune 26, 19376 years, 27 daysDaughter of Anna Dresden-Polak and Barend Dresden (murdered at Auschwitz, ).Judik Themans née Simons in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsGymnastBernard Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishHusband of Judik Themans née Simons.Sonja Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsMarch 9, 19385 years, 11 daysDutchJewishDaughter of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard Themans.Leon Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsFebruary 28, 19403 years, 27 daysDutchJewishSon of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard ThemansPublisher. His wife was also murdered at the camp at the same time.ComposerMagician"Shades of Anne Frank in Dutch prison camp diary." Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2004.GermanJewishDiarist. Her parents and brother were murdered at the same time.Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers, Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. 1997.58 yearsAustrianWriter, playwright, poet, socialist journalistGermanJewishPoet, generally regarded with writing the preliminary expressionist poem, inspiring countless poets Mentally ill, transported to Sobibor along with the 500 patients and staff of his sanitorium on , all of whom perished.Han Hollander on the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchFirst Dutch radio sports journalistLeentje Hollander-Smeer on the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishWife of Han Hollander. Their daughter Froukje Esther Waterman-Hollander was murdered at Auschwitz on .Elisabeth KleerekoperElisabeth Kleerekoper in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDaughter of Gerrit Kleerekoper and Kaatje Kleerekoper-Gerrit Kleerekoper in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishCoach of the women's gymnastic team which won the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in AmsterdamKaatje Kleerekoper née Ossedrijver in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishSpouse of Gerrit KleerekoperAbraham Kloot in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishSpouse of Helena Kloot née NordheimGermanFilm and stage actorHelena Kloot née Nordheim in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDutchJewishGymnast, member of the women's gymnastic team which won the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in AmsterdamRebecca Kloot in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the NetherlandsDaughter of Helena Kloot née Nordheim and Abraham Kloot
Survivors of Sobibor
There are fifty-eight known survivors; forty-eight male and ten female, among those who were in the camp as Arbeitshäftlinge, deportees selected from arriving transports to perform slave-labour for the daily operation of the camp. Their time in the camp ranged from several weeks to almost two years. A handful of Arbeitshäftlinge managed to escape while assigned to the Waldkommando, inmate details assigned the task of felling and preparing trees for the body disposal pyres. The majority of the survivors among Sobibor's Arbeitshäftlinge survived as a result of their camp-wide revolt on . Dutch historian Jules Schelvis estimated that 158 inmates perished in the revolt, killed by the guards and the minefield surrounding the camp, and that a further 107 were re-captured and murdered by the SS, Wehrmacht and Police units tasked with pursuing the escapees. He estimates that another 53 escapees died of other causes between the day of the revolt and May 8, 1945. In the aftermath of the revolt, the remaining camp inmates were murdered and the camp dismantled. Schelvis estimated that at the time of the escape there had been approximately 650 inmates in the camp.
Among the Sobibor survivors are also those who were spared the gas chambers in the camp as a result of transfer to slave-labour camps in the Lublin district, after selections upon arrival at Sobibor. These people spent several hours at Sobibor and were transferred almost immediately to slave-labour camps, including Majdanek and Alter Flugplatz camp in the city of Lublin, where materials looted from the gassed victims were prepared for shipment and distribution, and forced labour camps such as Krychów, Dorohucza and Trawniki. Estimates for the number of people selected in Sobibor range up to several thousand, of whom many perished in captivity before the end of the Nazi regime. The total number of survivors in this cohort includes 16 known survivors, 13 women and 3 men, from among the 34,313 people deported to Sobibor from the Netherlands.
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