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Researchers locate site of gas chambers in Poland
By VANESSA GERA
September 17, 2014 11:40 AM
Israel's Yad Vashem and the Majdanek State Museum in Poland, which oversees Sobibor, announced the finding Wednesday, calling it an important discovery in the field of Holocaust research.
Historians already knew that the Germans operated the gas chambers at Sobibor from April 1942 to October 1943, killing an estimated 250,000 Jews brought from across Europe. But they have many unanswered questions about the operation of the site because there were very few survivors and most of the site was dismantled during the war by the Germans.
"Any
small piece of information we can add to our knowledge is a great
thing," said Yoram Haimi, an Israeli archaeologist who has spent the
past eight years digging at the site. The team that found the remains of
the building also includes a Polish and a Dutch archaeologist.
Photos
released by the researchers show a sizeable rectangular structure with
brick walls that was divided into four chambers. Haimi said they have
found a number of personal items nearby, including gold teeth and
jewelry.
David Silberklang, a
historian with Yad Vashem, said the finding will shed light on "what
the Jews went through until they were murdered" and could lead to a more
precise estimate of the numbers killed.
The
Germans closed the camp after a prisoner revolt on Oct. 14, 1943, when
about 300 of the young inmates killed several German officers and guards
with axes and knives. Many of the prisoners fled the camp, but all
except 52 of them were killed by guards or died in water ditches and
mine fields surrounding the camp.
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of a gas chamber or a set of them. Among other error, note that the chambers were far too small to handle the so-called volume of "victims." Furthermore, no evidence of corpses, ashes,etc., have never been located at Sobibor. This is all mere Jewish propaganda leading up to the Jewish high holy days later this month and in early October.
-- Dr. Jacques Pluss,Commander, NSP. 1488
