Sobibor : a history of a Nazi death camp / Jules Schelvis ; edited and with a foreword by Bob Moore ; translated from the Dutch by Karin Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schelvis, Jules.

Contributor:

Moore, Bob, 1954-

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Standardized Title:

Vernietigingskamp Sobibor. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Schelvis, Jules.

Sobibór (Concentration camp).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Netherlands.

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews--Netherlands--Biography.

Jews.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Summary:

Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibor is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.

Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibor began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibor is not well documented and, were it not for an extraordinary revolt on 14 October 1943, we would know little about it. On that day, prisoners staged a remarkable uprising in which 300 men and women escaped. The author identifies only forty-seven who survived the war.

Sent in June 1943 to Sobibor, where his wife and her family were murdered, Jules Schelvis has written the first book-length, fully documented account of the camp. He details the creation of the killing centre, its personnel, the use of railways, selections, forced labour, gas chambers, escape attempts and the historic uprising.

In documenting this part of Holocaust history, this compelling and well-researched account advances our knowledge and understanding of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the European Jews.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Prelude to the `Final Solution' 7

3 Construction and Staffing 23

4 The Trains 45

5 Arrival and Selection 61

6 The Arbeitshaftlinge 83

7 The Gas Chambers 97

8 Dorohucza and Lublin 119

9 Escape Attempts 135

10 The Revolt 145

11 After the Revolt 173

12 Transports, Deportees and Death Counts 197

13 Sobibor Survivors 231

14 The Perpetrators 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

ISBN:

9781845204181

1845204182

9781845204198

1845204190

OCLC:

86117800

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