Not at all. America didn't know that it had happened at the time and, in any case until after World War 2 the difference between concentration camps and extermination camps was not understood.
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The revolt and mass breakout took place on 14 October 1943.
Most Russian Jews who died in the Holocaust were killed in mass, open-air shootings. Sobibor was primarily intended for Polish Jews. However, one of the leaders of the Sobibor revolt, which led to the dissolution of the camps, was a Soviet Jewish prisoners of war. It is not clear why he was sent there.
The revolt at Sobibor death camp was led by Alexander Pechersky, a Jewish prisoner. Pechersky and a group of inmates devised a plan to overpower the SS guards and escape the camp. On October 14, 1943, they carried out their plan, resulting in a successful uprising and the escape of around 300 prisoners.
Sobibor is located in a Polish forest about 12 km south of the village of Sobibor in the small locality named Stare Kolonia Sobibor.
Sobibor is pronounced - SOH-be-bore
* First routine gassings: 3 May 1942. * Revolt and mass breakout: 14 October 1943. * October 1943: camp dismantled.
Sobibor was liberated on October 14, 1943, by Soviet troops during World War II. The liberation followed a successful prisoner revolt that led to the escape of hundreds of inmates, although many were subsequently recaptured or killed. The camp was one of several extermination camps operated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The duration of Escape from Sobibor is 2.38 hours.
Sobibor was an extermination camp. Its sole purpose was to to kill. However, a small number of new arrivals were selected to help with the extermination process, for example, by sorting valuables and by getting rid of the corpses. In October 1943 there was a revolt by these men and a mass breakout. This was led by Alexander Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler. About 300 prisoners managed to get out. Many were recaptured but about 100 were still alive at the end of World War 2. Compare this figure with a death toll of about 250,000. So, only 300 'passed through' Sobibor ...
250,000 people were gassed.300 people escaped on October 14, 1943; the biggest revolt in a Nazi death camp.11 SS guards died in the escape.
Escape from Sobibor was created on 1987-04-12.