On this date in 1943, prisoners at the Sobibor Extermination Camp launched an uprising against their German and Ukrainian Guards. In total, about 300 Jews escaped. Of that group, about 50 lived to survive the war.

• Click here to read first-hand testimony from Dov Freiberg, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to serve as a 'cleaner' in Sobibor extermination camp, participated in the uprising, and then escaped into the forests of Poland. This is an excerpt from the book Sarid Sobibor, which JewishGen has translated into English: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Freiberg/fre009.html
• Click here to learn more about the Sobibor Extermination Camp: https://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/camps/sobiboreng.html

Map of the Sobibor Extermination Camp