October 14th

On this day – 14th of October – 1943 revolted the Jewish prisoners in one of the extermination camps 

The concentration camp, Sobibór was a camp in Poland where around 200.000 prisoners were executed during the war. On the revolt on the 14th of October 1943 tried around 600 of the prisoners to escape from the camp. The escape had been planned by a Jewish-Polish underground group who had heard rumors about German plans for the closing of the camp. In most cases, when camps were closed down were several of the prisoners brutally killed and this was something the prisoners fared. On the night of the 14th of October attacked the prisoners. 11 of the guards were killed in the revolt. Around half the prisoners succeeded in escaping to the forest, but most was recaptured later. An estimated 58 prisoners survived and successfully escaped the camp during the revolt. Shortly after the revolt was the cam demolished and trees were planted to hid its previous existence.