List of survivors of Sobibor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

proper. The list does not include the handful of those who were transported to Sobibor and were assigned to forced labor outside of the camp, such as Jules Schelvis

Jules Schelvis

Jules Schelvis is a Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.-References:...

. This list might be incomplete, but it is as complete as current records allow. There are 53 known Sobibor survivors; 43 male, 10 female. Except where noted, the survivors escaped during the camp-wide revolt on .

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Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age	Nationality	Faith	Arrival at camp	Notes
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|Witness at the Eichmann trial.
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|Brother of Symcha Bialowitz.
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|Brother of Philip Bialowitz.
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|Hid in the forest after arriving at the camp by train.
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|75 or 76 years
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|Among Oct 14 revolt's plotters. Duped SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf into going to the death-trap prepared for him. Escaped in revolt. While in hiding, shot in face by Polish farmer Bojarski's men --survived this by playing dead. Witness in post-war testimony against SS Staff Sergeant Karl Frenzel

Karl Frenzel

SS-Oberscharführer Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp's Lager I section, which was the section for the Sonderkommando forced-labor prisoner-workers, who also herded victims into the gas chambers...

. Wrote Sobibor historical book From The Ashes of Sobibor and assisted with writing of Escape from Sobibor --therefore also a frequent target of hate mail from Holocaust-deniers.
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|Father of Josef Cuckierman.
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|Son of Herschel Cuckierman.
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|Died of heart attack one day before he was expected to testify at the Sobibor trial.
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|Killed SS-Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...

(Staff Sergeant) Rudolf Beckmann during revolt. Escaped with Selma Wijnberg-Engel

Selma Wijnberg-Engel

Selma Engel-Wijnberg is a Dutch Holocaust survivor and the only known Dutch prisoner of Sobibor extermination camp who escaped and survived.Wijnberg grew up in Zwolle where her parents had a hotel ....

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

Erich Bauer

Hermann Erich Bauer , sometimes referred to as "Gasmeister", was a SS-Oberscharführer . He participated in Nazi Germany's Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard, serving as a gas chamber operator at Sobibor extermination camp...

Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol...

blows, SS-Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...

Siegfried Graetschus

Siegfried Graetschus

Siegfried Graetschus was an SS-Oberscharführer at Sobibor extermination camp. In the process, Graetschus aided with the genocide of Jews and other peoples at Sobibor during Operation Reinhard of The Holocaust.Gratschus joined the SS in 1935 and the Nazi Party in 1936...

1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...

Circa

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Circa

Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date...

Johann Niemann

Johann Niemann was an SS-Untersturmführer and deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp...

with an axe

Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol...

Axe

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol...

Siegfried Graetschus

and Volksdeutscher Ivan Klatt, during the revolt. Red Army soldier.
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|Escaped on , along with four other prisoners.
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|63 years
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|She fought as a member of the partisans and the Red Army after the revolt.
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|He fought with the partisans after the revolt.
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