List of survivors of Sobibor
Appearance
This is a list of survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp proper. The list does not include the handful of those who were transported to Sobibor and were assigned to forced labor outside of the camp, such as Jules Schelvis. This list might be incomplete, but it is as complete as current records allow. There are 53 known Sobibor survivors; 43 male, 10 female. Except where noted, the survivors escaped during the camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943.
Male | |
Female |
Name | Date of birth | Date of death | Age | Nationality | Faith | Arrival at camp | Notes |
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Schlomo Alster[1] | December 1, 1908 | Polish | Jewish | November 1942 | |||
Moshe Bahir[1][2] | July 19, 1927 | Polish | Jewish | May 24, 1942 | Witness at the Eichmann trial. | ||
Antonius Bardach[1] | May 16, 1909 | Polish | March 30, 1943 | ||||
Philip Bialowitz[1][2] | November 25, 1929 | Alive | Polish | Jewish | April 28, 1943 | Brother of Symcha Bialowitz. | |
Symcha Bialowitz[1][2] | December 6, 1912 | Polish | Jewish | April 28, 1943 | Brother of Philip Bialowitz. | ||
Rachel Birnbaum[3] | Polish | Jewish | Hid in the forest after arriving at the camp by train. | ||||
Jakob Biskubicz[1][2] | March 17, 1926 | March 2002 | 75 or 76 years | Polish | June 1942 | ||
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt[1][4] | April 15, 1927 | Alive | 97 years, 154 days | Polish | Jewish | April 23, 1943 | Among Oct 14 revolt's plotters. Duped SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf into going to the death-trap prepared for him. Escaped in revolt. While in hiding, shot in face by Polish farmer Bojarski's men --survived this by playing dead. Witness in post-war testimony against SS Staff Sergeant Karl Frenzel. Wrote Sobibor historical book From The Ashes of Sobibor and assisted with writing of Escape from Sobibor --therefore also a frequent target of hate mail from Holocaust-deniers. |
Herschel Cuckierman[1] | April 15, 1893 | July 1979 | Error: Second date should be year, month, day | Polish | Jewish | May 1942 | Father of Josef Cuckierman. |
Josef Cuckierman[1] | May 26, 1930 | June 15, 1963 | 33 years, 20 days | Polish | Jewish | May 1942 | Son of Herschel Cuckierman. |
Josef Duniec[1] | December 21, 1912 | December 1, 1965 | 52 years, 345 days | Polish | Jewish | March 30, 1943 | Died of heart attack one day before he was expected to testify at the Sobibor trial. |
Szymon Cymiel[2] | |||||||
Chaim Engel[1][5] | January 10, 1916 | July 4, 2003 | 87 years, 175 days | Polish | Jewish | November 6, 1942 | Killed SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) Rudolf Beckmann during revolt. Escaped with Selma Wijnberg-Engel. The two later married. |
Selma Engel-Wijnberg[1][5] | May 15, 1922 | Alive | 102 years, 124 days | Dutch | Jewish | April 9, 1943 | Escaped with Chaim Engel during the revolt. The two later married. |
Leon Feldhendler[1][2] | 1910 | April 6, 1945 | 34 or 35 years | Polish | Jewish | early 1943 | One of the main organizers of the revolt. Made his way back to his hometown of Lublin, where he was later killed by gunshot. |
Dov Freiberg[1][2] | May 15, 1927 | March 2008 | 80 years | Polish | Jewish | May 15, 1942 | Witness at the Eichmann trial. |
Herman Gerstenberg[1] | October 8, 1909 | June 8, 1987 | 77 years, 243 days | Polish | Jewish | March 14, 1943 | |
Mordechai "Moshe" Goldfarb[1][2] | March 15, 1920 | June 8, 1984 | 64 years, 85 days | Polish | Jewish | November 6, 1942 | |
Josef Herszman[1][2] | 1925 | Polish | Jewish | 1942 | |||
Zyndel Honigman[1] | April 10, 1910 | July 1989 | 79 years | Ukrainian | November 1942 | Escaped from the camp - twice - neither time as part of the camp-wide revolt. | |
Abram Kohn[1] | July 25, 1910 | January 19, 1986 | 75 years, 178 days | Polish | Jewish | May 1942 | |
Josef Kopp[1] | 1944 or 1945 | Polish | 1942 | He and Schlomo Podchlebnik escaped by killing a Ukrainian guard on July 27, 1943 while on duties outside of the camp in the nearby village of Zlobek. Kopp was later killed after the camp's liberation. | |||
Chaim Korenfeld[1][2] | May 15, 1923 | Polish | Jewish | April 28, 1943 | Jewish | ||
Chaim Powroznik[2] | |||||||
Chaim Leist[1] | Bet. 1906 & 1911 | October 2005 | Polish | Jewish | April 23, 1943 | ||
Samuel Lerer[1][2] | October 1, 1922 | Alive | Polish | Jewish | May 1942 | Identified gas chamber executioner Hermann Erich Bauer after the war in Berlin, leading to his arrest. | |
Jehuda Lerner[1][2][4] | July 22, 1926 | Polish | Jewish | September 1943 | He and Red Army P.O.W. Arkady Moishejwicz Wajspapir killed two guards with axe blows, SS-Oberscharführer Siegfried Graetschus and Volksdeutscher Ivan Klatt, during the revolt. | ||
Elka de Levie[3] | November 21, 1905 | December 12, 1979 | 74 years, 21 days | Dutch | Jewish | Gymnast. Gold medalist at 1928 Summer Olympics. Only Jewess of the 1928 Dutch Olympic gymnastics team to survive the Holocaust. | |
Eda Lichtman[1][2] | January 1, 1915 | Polish | Jewish | June 1943 | Witness at the Eichmann trial. Married Jitschak Lichtman in 1950. | ||
Jitschak Lichtman[1][2] | December 10, 1908 | 1992 | 83 or 84 years | Polish | Jewish | May 15, 1942 | Married Eda Lichtman (Fischer) in 1950. |
Yefim Litwinowski[1] | Soviet | September 22, 1943 | Red Army soldier. | ||||
Abraham Margulies[1] | January 25, 1921 | 1984 | 62 or 63 years | Polish | late May 1942 | ||
Chaskiel Menche[1] | January 7, 1910 | 1984 | 73 or 74 years | Polish | June 1942 | ||
Zelda Metz[1] | May 1, 1925 | 1980 | 54 or 55 years | Polish | Jewish | December 20, 1942 | Pretended to be Catholic after the escape. |
Alexander "Sasha" Pechersky[1][2] | February 22, 1909 | January 19, 1990 | 80 years, 331 days | Ukrainian | Jewish | September 22, 1943 | Chief organizer and leader of the revolt. Red Army soldier. |
Nachum "Niam" Piatnicki[2] | Jewish | ||||||
Schlomo Podchelbnik[1] | February 15, 1907 | February 1973 | 66 years | Polish | Jewish | April 28, 1943 | He and Josef Kopp escaped by killing a Ukrainian guard on July 27, 1943 while on duties outside of the camp in the nearby village of Zlobek. |
Gertrude "Luka" Poppert–Schonborn[2] | 1914 or 1915 | c. 1943 | c. 28 years | German | After a successful escape, she was never seen again; her fate remains unknown.[6] | ||
Esther Raab[1][2] | June 11, 1922 | Alive | Polish | Jewish | December 20, 1942 | ||
Simjon Rosenfeld[1][2] | 1922 | Soviet | September 22, 1943 | ||||
Ajzik Rotenberg[1] | 1925 | Polish | Jewish | May 12, 1943 | |||
Joseph Serchuk | 1919 | November 6, 1993 | 74 years | Polish | Jewish | ||
David Serchuk | Polish | Jewish | |||||
Moshe Szklarek[1] | Jewish | ||||||
Alexander Shubayev[1][7] | Belorussian | Jewish | Killed deputy commandant Johann Niemann with an axe to his head; was later killed fighting the Germans. Red Army soldier. | ||||
Ursula Stern[1] | August 28, 1926 | 1985 | 58 or 59 years | German | Jewish | April 9, 1943 | Witness at Hagen trial. Changed name to "Ilana Safran" after the war. |
Stanisław Szmajzner[1][2] | March 13, 1927 | March 3, 1989 | 61 years, 355 days | Polish | Jewish | May 12, 1942 | |
Leon Szymiel[2] | |||||||
Boris Tabarinsky[1][2] | 1917 | Belorussian | September 22, 1943 | ||||
Kurt Ticho Thomas[1][2] | April 11, 1914 | June 8, 2009 | 95 years, 58 days | Czech | Jewish | November 6, 1942 | After the war, he brought charges against SS officers Hubert Gomerski and Johann Klier. |
Chaim Trager[1] | March 5, 1906 | August 1, 1969 | 63 years, 149 days | Polish | Jewish | March 1943 | |
Aleksej Waizen[1] | May 30, 1922 | Ukrainian | autumn 1943 | ||||
Arkady Moishejwicz Wajspapir[1][4][7] | 1921 | Alive | Russian | Jewish | September 22, 1943 | He and Jehuda Lerner killed two guards with axe blows, SS-Oberscharführer Siegfried Graetschus and Volksdeutscher Ivan Klatt, during the revolt. Red Army soldier. | |
Abraham Wang[1] | January 2, 1921 | 1978 | Polish | Jewish | April 23, 1943 | Escaped on July 27, 1943, along with four other prisoners. | |
Hella Weiss[1][2] | November 25, 1925 | December 1988 | 63 years | Polish | Jewish | December 20, 1942 | She fought as a member of the partisans and the Red Army after the revolt. |
Kalmen Wewerik[1] | June 25, 1906 | Polish | Jewish | November 1942 | He fought with the partisans after the revolt. | ||
Regina Zielinsky[1] | September 2, 1924 | Alive | Polish | Jewish | December 20, 1942 | ||
Meier Ziss[1][2] | November 15, 1927 | Alive | Polish | Jewish | May 1942 |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Sobibor Interviews: Survivors of the revolt
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Escape from Sobibor (1987).
- ^ a b United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- ^ a b c BBC History of World War II. Auschwitz; Inside the Nazi State. Part 4, Corruption.
- ^ a b United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Selma Wijnberg
- ^ Toivi Blatt interviews Sasha Pechersky about Luka in 1980 Retrieved on 2009-05-08
- ^ a b Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Indiana University Press. 1987.