Sobibor

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Sobibor was established in 1942. Operations began April 1942, and ended after an inmate revolt in October 14, 1943. The estimated number of deaths was 250,000, and a majority of them were jews. Sobibor was the second death camp that went into operaton in the Aktion Reinhard Program. It was built in a low populated area but was strategically placed where the Jewish people mostly lived in Chelm and Lublin. Local Polish workersd and Jewish slaves were the ones who did the construction work for the Sobibor death camp, in March 1942. The Sobibor death camp was split into three camps. The first camp held jewish prisoners that had to service the SS men and Ukrainians. The second camp is where depotees undressed in the open before going to the shaving hut for women and the gas chambers, also storage huts for clothing and valuables. The third camp was the most remote area, inside a brick bulilding were three gas chambers. From May 1942 to July 1942, about 100,000 Jews were killed. When they arrived they were told that they had arrived at 'transit' camp1, the building was designed to reassure them. They were separated according to gender and age, the children went with the women. In July 1943, Himmler, who had visited in Febuary ordered it to be changed into a concentration camp. It was led by Leon Feldhendler. The uprising of this camp started on October 14, 1943. In the fighting 11 SS men were killed along with many Ukrainian guards. 300 Jews escaped, but dozens were killed in a mine field, and some more were killed by the guards hunting them down. of the jews who broke out 50 survived to the end of the war.