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.

• 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

• Established in March 1942
• 700 Jews worked in Sobibor
• Sobibor was 1,312 by 1,969 feet
• 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

Odilo Globocnik

• Born into an Austrain Family
• Arrested for supporting NSDAP
• First provable activity in 1931
• Quickly Climb Party
• 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

Operation Reinhard

• 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