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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786818003321

Autore

Schelvis Jules

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4725-8906-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18092

940.5318092

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands

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

Jews - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Author's Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Prelude to the 'Final Solution'; 3 Construction and Staffing; 4 The Trains; 5 Arrival and Selection; 6 The Arbeitshäftlinge; 7 The Gas Chambers; 8 Dorohucza and Lublin; 9 Escape Attempts; 10 The Revolt; 11 After the Revolt; 12 Transports, Deportees and Death Counts; The Netherlands; Czechoslovakia; France; The Soviet Union; Germany and Austria; General Government; 13 Sobibór Survivors; 14 The Perpetrators; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibör 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



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