MUZEUM POJEZIERZA ŁĘCZYŃSKO WŁODAWSKIEGO
22-200 WŁODAWA
ul. Czerwonego Krzyża 7
phone. +48 82 57 22 1 78
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www.muzeum.wlodawa.metronet.pl
www.ftk-wlodawa.pl
Opening hours: Daily 9:00-15:00 saturday,sunday 10:00-14:00


MUSEUM OF THE FORMER NAZI CAMP IN SOBIBOR

Contact: Museum of the Former Nazi Camp in Sobibór

phone: +48 82 57 19 867

 Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor SS - Sonderkommando Sobibor operated from May 1942 to October 1943. The first transports of Jews arrived at Sobibor with the end of April 1942, the vast majority of arrivals were sent to extermination. Only a few prisoners were assigned to work in a variety of working "commandos" in the camp. The number of victims of Sobibor is calculated at about 250 thousand. people – Jews fromPoland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Holland, Romania, Hungary, Belgium and the occupied territories of the USSR - mainly Belarus, and about 1,000 Poles. The idea of ​​commemorating the victims murdered in the Nazi extermination camp in Sobibor was born in the mid 60s at the initiative of the Council of Protection of Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom. Mound commemorated the place of execution – also the mausoleum containing the ashes of the murdered and the monument. Since 1993 in the camp operates the Museum of the Former Nazi Death Camp In Sobibor. It is a branch of the Museum of Łęczyńsko -Włodawskie Lakeland in Wlodawa