Sobibor—The Cold Hard Disturbing Data

Of the approximately 100,000 Dutch Jews who the Nazis murdered during the Holocaust, about one-third of them were murdered at Sobibor.

Below is the breakdown of the figures of those killed at Sobibor.

The Transports
Tuesday, 2 March 1943             1105 deportees       No survivors
Wednesday, 10 March 1943     1105 deportees      13 survivors
Wednesday, 17 March 1943       964 deportees       1 survivor
Tuesday, 23 March 1943           1250 deportees       No survivors
Tuesday, 30 March 1943           1255 deportees       No survivors
Tuesday, 6 April 1943                2020 deportees      2 survivors
Tuesday, 13 April 1943              1204 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 20 April 1943              1166 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 27 April 1943              1204 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 4 May 1943                 1187 deportees       No survivors
Tuesday, 11 May 1943               1446 deportees      1 survivor
Tuesday, 18 May 1943               2511 deportees       No survivors
Tuesday, 25 May 1943               2862 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 1 June 1943                3006 deportees      1 survivor
Tuesday, 8 June 1943                3017 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 29 June 1943              2397 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 6 July 1943                 2417 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 13 July 1943               1988 deportees      No survivors
Tuesday, 20 July 1943               2209 deportees     No survivors

Here are a few quotes from those who survived.

Cato Polak
“We had absolutely no idea.”
“We wore our own clothes.”
“We could sense tension in the air.”
“We worked day and night.”

Judith Eliazar and Bertha Ensel
“Sometimes we worked until midnight.”
“We had to burn dead bodies.”

Sophia Huisman
“We never saw any of these people again.”
“He was hanged right in front of us.”

Mirjam Penha-Blits
“We believed war would be over within three months.”
“Before I knew it I was struck by a whip.”
“Life in the camp is really just one big fight.”

Jules Schelvis
“Before I knew it the women were separated from the men.”
“Emaciated people with death in their shoes passed us.”
“De zieken werden doodgeschoten—the sick were shot dead.”






Source

https://www.sobiborinterviews.nl/

One response to “Sobibor—The Cold Hard Disturbing Data”

  1. Dee Hochman-Toro Avatar
    Dee Hochman-Toro

    Why is? Why do we have to be tortured on every day of our lives? Why do we suffer both internally and externally? This camp was brutal. It destroyed anything left in all of us.

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