Sobibor extermination camp

Sobibor was not a prison camp, but set up by the Nazis simply to murder Jews. With the Treblinka and Belzec camps, it was part of ‘Aktion Reinhard’, intended to destroy the Jews in Poland. ^[1] The Jews were brought in by train and gassed shortly after arrival. Almost no one avoided this. The camp operated from April 1942 to October 1943. Between 170,000 and 250,000 people perished, including more than 34,000 Dutch Jews.^[2]