The extermination camp, Sobibór, was located in the modern borders of Poland, in a region which was named Lublin during the German occupation. It was built in spring of 1942, and was the second center of the Operation Reinhard, which was the name of the Nazi's plan to kill all the Jews in German-occupied Poland. It was built along the Chelm-Wldawa railway and its measures were 1.312 x 1.969 feet. All the camp, but the main entrance, was surrounded by a minefield of 50 feet wide. This extermination camp was run and guarded by about 20 or 30 SS officials, police and an auxiliary unit of about 90 or 120 men. They began with regular gassing operations by May 1942. Most of the people who got there, got directly, after undressing, getting a haircut and some other procedures, to the gas chamber. The “lucky” ones, were chosen to work as Sonderkommandos in the killing areas. They had to take the bodies from the gas chamber and bury them in mass graves. They also had to look in the bodies for hidden valuable objects. Some others were chosen to work in more administrative like works. Both groups were short lived, since the knew the truth of what was happening, so they were periodically replaced. …show more content…
During Autumn of 1942 they got orders to burn all of the mass graves in open ovens and crush the bones into powder, the goal was to erase all the evidence of mass murdering in that place. It was the summer of 1943 when the arrival of people to Sobibór slowed down. The final clue was a rumor the got about the dismantling and total liquidation of the prisoners of Belzec, the first camp of Operation Reinhard. The prisoners there sensed the end was getting near and they had to do something about