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the chief of german police leads general in Lublin to kill jews and gather jews while they build a death camp which will be later known as the Sobibor Death Camp.
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Sobibor was created with Franz Stangl as its leader. sobibor was the second death camp built after Belzec.
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the camp authorities continue with the murdering of Jews in the gas chambers as more than 24,000 more jews arrive from from slovak they killed all Jews upon arrival
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the wannsee had decided that three death camps would be built immediately to help the final solution to the Jewish question one of those camps was sobibor
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the SS deports 2,400 jews from the Rejowiec, Chelm county in Lublin district was the first deportation into sobibor most of them were murdered upon arrival. Regular tranports began on may 3rd with the arrival of 200 jews from Zamosc.
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Himmler orders a resettlement of all Jews in the generalgouvernement by the end of 1942 an estimated 1,200,000 Jews reside in the generalgouvernement. Himmlers order accelerates the killing program
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two transports containing 2,000 Jews from france arrive at the sobibor camp from the police camp Drancy outside of paris.
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prisoners carry out a revolt in sobibor killing nearly a dozen German staff and trained guards there were 600 prisoners on this day around 300 of them escaped the rest were killed running through the mine fields.
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following himmlers order to liquidate the jews in ostland and deport those who survived to sobibor. in just september they deported at least 13,700 jews to sobibor.
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due to the revolt Camp Sobibor was shut down for good around 250,000 Jews were killed during camp Sobibors years.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police officers entered the ghetto to deport surviving inhabitants. a couple of months later the Germans crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins.
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Approximately 100,000 Jews died during the death marches that's a lot just for death marches
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German SS and police authorities begin the deportations of dutch Jews from the police camp at westerbork in the netherlands to the sobibor camp. in 19 transports the authorities deport over 34,000 Jews to sobibor
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in correspondance with Himmler, Odilo Globocnik files the final reports on the conclusion of operations Reinhard, the dismantling of the killing centers and the accounting of the personal possessions stolen from the murdered victims.
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a Polish-Jewish lawyer by the name of Raphael Lemkin described the Nazi policies of the murder and destruction of the European Jews
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over 1.1million children were murdered or starved during the Holocaust
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the soviet soldiers were the ones to liberate the death camps most of the world didn't want to believe it
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in the early 1930's the Jew population was over 9 million so Hitler told the Nazis to go out and murder all Jews they ended up killing nearly every 2 out of 3 European Jews
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the holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution of and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi and it's collaborators.
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the holocaust encyclopedia is now full of 50 biographies of Jewish partisans that were part of the holocaust.
