Nazi extermination camp, Poland

Sobibor, Sobibór, Poland, Nazi German extinction camp is in the forest near Sobibór village in Lublin today in Poland. It was built in March 1942 and was operated from May 1942 until October 1943. That gas chamber killed about 250,000 Jews, most of them from the Poland and Soviet occupied territories.

Sobibor was one of the three Reinhart operations camps established after the Wannsee conference to eliminate the occupied Polish Jewish population. There are other Belzec and Treblinka. The first commander of the camp was Franz Steiner and it was a veteran of the T4 program, like many men of 30 SS (Nazi paramilitary) men, killing the invalid and the disabled . They were former German training prisoners and were aided by 90-120 Ukrainians who were in charge of their new assignment. Victims of Sobibor's gas chambers are killed by carbon monoxide

From May to July 1942 Nazis transported Jews from Somalia to Poland, Germany, Austria and Slovakia. In some cases, expulsion of railway lines and expansion of gas stations ceased due to expulsion from foreign countries, resulting in capacity doubled to about 1,200. On October 14, 1943, about 300 Jewish workers uprising in the camp killed several SS guards and security guards in Ukraine. Many prisoners were killed during the rebellion or when trying to escape. All the remaining people were executed the next day. Nazis disassembled these facilities and planted trees in that area. After all, only about 50 Soviortor prisoners won war.

In the summer of 1944, as a teenager of Hungary, Elie Wiesel and his father, mother, and sister were exiled to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland occupied by the Nazis. Upon arrival, Wiesel and his father were chosen as slavery by Dr. Josef Mengele and worked at the nearby Buna Rubber Factory. In April 1945, Wessel was released by the US military. After the war he moved to Paris to become a journalist and later settled in New York. Since 1976, he is Professor Andrew Mellon of the Boston University Humanities Department. He has won numerous awards including the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Freedom Medal. He is also the founding chairman of the American Holocaust Memorial. Wessel wrote over 40 books including "Knight" including a tragic record of his first genocide experience in 1960.

In the beginning of 1942, under the guidance of Christian Wells, Nazis established an extermination camp in Bejek, accepted Jews from Poland, and then accepted Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania. Belzek is one of three extinction camps (including Sobibor and Treblinka) planned to destroy the entire Jewish population in Central and Eastern Poland. Camp consists of about 20 SS personnel assisted by 90 Ukrainians, all Soviet prisoners spontaneously serve Germans; Ukrainians have Germans Volksdeutsche - East European citizens

The Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration camps and extinction camps that were constructed and operated by Nazi Germany in Poland occupied during World War II. This included Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II - Birkenau (central colony / extermination camp), Auschwitz III - Monowitz (a labor camp employing the IG Farben plant), and 45 Satellite camp is included. The Auschwitz concentration camp was originally designed to accommodate political prisoners in Poland and arrived in May 1940. First disinfection of prisoners in September 1941. Auschwitz II - Birkenau continued to be the main place of the Nazis in the end to solve the Jewish problem. Problems during the massacre. From the beginning of 1942 to the end of 1944, transportation trains carried Jews from all regions of Europe that Germany occupied from the region of Europe to the gas chamber of the camp, where cyanide-based poison Zyklon B developed as an insecticide It was killed along with.