(JTA) — Arkady Wajspapir, a key figure in the 1943 uprising at the Sobibor death camp, died in Kiev at the age of 96. Wajspapir killed at least one Nazi soldier during the uprising — the most ...

Semion Rosenfeld, who moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, was one of 47 prisoners to survive the September 1943 Sobibor uprising. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central ...

Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland where more than a quarter of a million Jews were annihilated, was also the site of the largest prisoner escape of World War II. Based on years of research, this ...

If you’ve never heard about the Sobibor death camps ... of mass murder in a remote forest in Poland and then following a revolt and mass escape, they destroyed the camp. Essentially, they ...