Sobibor

=**Sobibor**= Adam Brown


 * Sobibor was a killing center designed for killing as many Jews as possible.
 * It was built in a woody, swampy area.
 * They used gas chambers as the most used killing operation.
 * The dead bodies were buried in deep trenches.
 * In the summer of 1942 the bodies were dug up out of the trenches and burned so there was no more evidence that sobibor was ever there.
 * Sobibor was one of the three Aktion Reinhard camps.
 * Sobibor was divided into three killing centers.[[image:belzec_camp.GIF width="485" height="310" align="left"]]


 * Belzec was one of the reinhard camps as well as Treblinka.
 * While the bodies were dug up and burned the ashes of the bodies were thrown in the river at night.
 * Sobibor was divided into three main parts the administration area, the reception area, and the killing area.
 * Killing areas included gas chambers, mass graves, and barracks for the prisoners.
 * There was a path that was called the "Tube".
 * The Tube lead from the reception area to the gas chambers.
 * The people were told to undress and then run through the tube where they got gassed with carbon monoxide.

=**Sobibor**= Tim Breidigan Odilo Globocnik Operation Reinhard
 * Established in March 1942
 * 700 Jews worked in Sobibor
 * [|Sobibor] was 1,312 by 1,969 feet[[image:file:a1761.6.jpg]]
 * Camp Surroned by a mine field
 * Administration- Camp offices, barracks for guard, and barracks for forced labor
 * Reception- Ramp, Barracks where victims undressed
 * Killing Area- included Gas chambers, mass graves, and barracks for people in in forced labor
 * They though they were all going to work
 * given speech saying "To undress go in the shower then disenfected"
 * more gas chambers added to kill faster
 * Carbon monoxide gas chambers
 * The path to the gas chambers known "As The Road To Heaven"
 * After they were killed they were thrown into mass graves
 * Also thrown on open fires
 * 250,000 people killed
 * Chambers enlargened to hold 1200 people
 * Located by a train railway
 * Sobibor was named after the town
 * Found in eastern Lublin district
 * 5 Km away from bug river
 * Built in a woody swamp area
 * They killed SS troops on an escape
 * Took there guns and fought there way out
 * All were cought
 * Under ground ecapes were made
 * After 943 there was no trace of Sobibor Left
 * As They arrivied some were picked to live and others were killed
 * Two successful rebellions
 * Born into an Austrain Family[[image:globocnik-1939a.jpg width="175" height="271" align="right"]][[image:globocnik-1939a.jpg]]
 * Arrested for supporting NSDAP
 * First provable activity in 1931
 * Quickly Climb Party[[image:file:globocnik-1939a.jpg]]
 * Became Deputy Gavleiter
 * had bishop of Klangenfurt distribute explosives Socialists
 * Rewarded by being made Gauleiter of Vienna
 * One task construct courier and intelligence severice
 * Channelled funds from German Reich into Austria
 * Used dirty tricks because financial matters and he was uncompromising
 * Responsible for four main things
 * 1) Liquidating Warsaw Ghetto, which had about 500,000 people
 * 2) Liquidating the Bialystock stood out for strong German resistance
 * 3) Resettling a large quantity of poles
 * 4)The Network of Arbeitslayer labor camps
 * Got vocal order to start work on Belzec
 * Also later responsible for construction of Sobibor, Maidanek, and Treblinka
 * In charge of operation Rienhard
 * He committed suicide
 * Code given to Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in general Government
 * Also marked use of extermination camps
 * Hypothesized that the operation named after SS-Obergruppenfuhrer
 * Extermination process in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka similar method
 * All camps looked the same
 * About 2 million Jews lost there lives
 * 700,000,000 of Jews property was stolen
 * Ended in November 1942