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Author Webb, Chris, 1954-

Title The Sobibor death camp : history, biographies, remembrance / Chris Webb
Published Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (519 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Introduction; With Grateful Thanks; Abbreviations used in the Footnotes; The Author â#x80;#x93; Whitehill 2016; Part I The Hell Called Sobibór; Chapter I â#x80;#x98;Aktion Reinhardtâ#x80;#x99; (An Overview); Chapter II The Construction of The Sobibór Death Camp; Chapter III The Original Gas Chambers and Camp III; Chapter IV Mass Murder Begins (Aprilâ#x80;#x93;August 1942); Chapter V Franz Reichleitner Arrives Construction of New Gas Chambers (Juneâ#x80;#x93;December 1942); Chapter VI Jewish Work Brigades (Everyday Life and Death)
Chapter VII Himmler Visits Sobibór (Expansion of the Camp)Chapter VIII Transports from Poland, France, Holland, Slovakia Belorussia, Lithuania and The Reich (Aktion Reinhardt Decode); Chapter IX The Waldkommando Revolt (July 20, 1943); Chapter X The Prisoner Revolt (October 14, 1943); Chapter XI The Aftermath (October 1943); Chapter XII The Liquidation of the Camp; Part II Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators, and the Aftermath; Chapter XIII Jewish Survivors and Victims (Roll of Remembrance); Chapter XIV The Perpetrators; Chapter XV Testimonies and Trials; Chapter XVI Epilogue
Appendix 1 The Sobibór Area Labor CampsAppendix 2 List of Trawniki MÃÞnner Who Served at Sobibór Death Camp; Illustrations and Sources; Documents, Drawings, Maps and Sources; Equivalent Ranks; Glossary of Nazi Terms; Selected Bibliography; Sources and Acknowledgements; Index of Names
Summary The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt'with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built near the remote village of Treblinka. Sobibor was similarly designed as the first camp in Belzec, it was regarded as an 'overflow' camp for Belzec. This account of the Nazis' remorseless and relentless production line of killing at the Sobibor death camp tells of one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. Chris Webb's painstakingly researched volume ranges from the survivors and the victims to the SS men who carried out the atrocities. What makes this work special is the research which has been gathered on the survivors, who by good fortune, courage, and determination survived Sobibor and built new lives for themselves, new families, but bore the scars of this terrible place for all of their lives. Webb focuses on the victims and presents details of their lives which have been found and re-tells them to keep their memory alive, to show they are not forgotten. The cruel and barbaric murder process is described in great detail, as well as the confiscation of the valuables and possessions of the unfortunate Jews who crossed the threshold of this man-made hell. One cannot fail to be moved by the personal accounts of those who survived, their loved ones perished in this factory of death. The book covers the construction of the death camp, the physical layout of the camp, as remembered by both the Jewish inmates and the SS staff who served there, and the personal recollections that detail the day to day experiences of the prisoners and the SS. The courageous revolt by the prisoners on October 14, 1943 is re-told by the prisoners and the German SS, with detailed accounts of the revolt and its aftermath. The post-war fate of the perpetrators, or more precisely those that were brought to trial, and information regarding the more recent history of the site itself concludes this book. There is a large photographic section of rare, previously unpublished photographs and documents from the author's private archive
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sobibór (Concentration camp) -- History
Sobibór (Concentration camp) -- Uprising, 1943.
SUBJECT Sobibór (Concentration camp) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland.
Operation Reinhard, Poland, 1942-1943 -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Internment camps
Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3838269667
9783838269665