Sobibor
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Włodawa | ||
| Gmina : | Włodawa | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 29 ' N , 23 ° 38' E | ||
| Residents : | 491 (December 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 22-231 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 82 | ||
| License plate : | Fiber optic | ||
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| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
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| Administration (as of 2007) | |||
| Sołectwo : | M. Fajks / J. Ziemiński | ||
Sobibór [ sɔˈbʲibur ] is a village in eastern Poland , which belongs to the rural municipality of Włodawa , Powiat Włodawski , in the Lublin Voivodeship . Sobibór had around 460 inhabitants in 2007 and includes the two school authorities Sobibór-Stacja (train station, 108 inh.) And Sobibór-Wieś (village, 351 inh.).
geography
Sobibór is located ten kilometers southeast of Włodawa on the Bug River on the border with Ukraine . The Sobibór-Wieś Schulzenamt is located near the border on the parallel DW816 road (Droga wojewódzka). The Schulzenamt Sobibór-Stacja is about five kilometers southwest of it on the railway line. West of the town is the under nature conservation standing landscaped Sobiborski Landscape Park .
Schulzenämter
| Schulzenamt | Residents | Sołtys | location |
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| Sobibór-Wieś | 351 | Mirosław Fajks | (Location) |
| Sobibór-Stacja | 108 | Jerzy Ziemiński | (Location) |
(Residents: as of 2007)
history
Sobibor extermination camp
During the German occupation of Poland, the Sobibor extermination camp (1942–1943) was located near the Sobibór train station . The number of predominantly Jewish people murdered in the Sobibór camp is estimated at 150,000 to 250,000 people. It was built by the SS as the second extermination camp after Belzec as part of Aktion Reinhardt and was then called SS-Sonderkommando .
The 600 at this time surviving prisoners of this German concentration camp liberated itself on 14 October 1943 an uprising against the SS guards themselves. After the uprising of Treblinka in the Treblinka death camp on August 2, 1943 was uprising Sobibor under the direction by Alexander Petscherski and Leon Feldhendler the second successful resistance in the extermination camps. He was also known from the film Escape from Sobibor .
Administrative history
Due to an administrative reform, the place came to the Chełm Voivodeship in 1975 . After another reform and the dissolution of the voivodeship, Sobibór was part of the Lublin Voivodeship from 1999. From 1867 to 1933 the village was the seat of Gmina Sobibór .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d W miesiącu marzec 2007r. zostały przeprowadzone wybory na sołtysa, w wyniku których wybrano następujące osoby. ( Memento of January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the municipality of Włodawa, accessed on November 30, 2009 (archived version, Polish)