{"id":17004,"date":"2024-06-17T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/uprisings-in-extermination-camps-killing-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:35:10","slug":"uprisings-in-extermination-camps-killing-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/uprisings-in-extermination-camps-killing-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Uprisings in Extermination Camps (Killing Centers)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSolidarity and Resistance in the death camps helped many deportees survive. In 1943 and 1944, the uprisings at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Sobibor\u2014in the hellish setting of the \u201cFinal Solution to the Jewish Question\u201d\u2014bear witness to the heroism and greatness of the Resistance fighters. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Amid the conditions of systematic extermination, deportees managed to organize uprisings in three of the six extermination camps located in Poland: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz.<\/p>

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\u2014 Treblinka: By the end of 1942, more than 700,000 people had been murdered at Treblinka. In 1943, the deportees were forced to exhume and cremate the bodies that had been buried there. <\/p>

On August 2, 1943, about a thousand of them seized whatever weapons they could find\u2014picks, axes, and a few firearms stolen from the armory\u2014and broke through the camp\u2019s barbed-wire fences after killing some of the guards.<\/p>

About 200 prisoners managed to escape and join the Polish partisans. At the end of the war, the camp was razed by the SS so that no trace of it would remain. <\/p>

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\u2014 Sobibor: At this extermination camp, 800 to 1,000 people arrived by train every day. Approximately 350,000 Jews were exterminated over a period of 17 months, from May 8, 1942, to October 14, 1943, the date that marked the end of the camp. The organizer of the uprising was a young Red Army officer who had been detained at Sobibor for three weeks. <\/p>

On October 14, 1943, deportees killed most of the SS officers and noncommissioned officers with weapons made by the camp\u2019s locksmiths. Three hundred prisoners managed to escape into the forest by cutting a hole in the barbed wire and set the camp on fire. More than a hundred were recaptured and executed. Only about ten prisoners survived the war. <\/p>

For the Nazis, the very existence of Sobibor had to be kept secret: just like Treblinka, Sobibor was razed to the ground by the SS.<\/p>

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\u2014 Auschwitz-Birkenau: The organizers behind the idea of the Resistance were Polish Jews deported from France, members of the \u201cSonderkommando.\u201d At Auschwitz, this term referred to the team of Jews tasked with assisting the SS in killing prisoners, collecting their clothes, extracting gold teeth, piling the victims into the crematoria, or burning them on pyres. <\/p>

The deportees assigned to Crematorium 4 secretly organized a plan to blow it up and set Crematorium 3 on fire. On October 7, 1944, the uprising took place. The Germans executed the hundreds of prisoners who took part in it. But Crematorium 3 would never be used again. <\/p>

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*Notre Voix*, an <\/em>underground newspaper <\/em>of the Jewish section of M.O.I., reported in April 1944 on \u201cthe revolt in the Tremblanki extermination camp\u201d (Treblinka). The article concludes as follows: \u201cThrough this courageous act in one of the most terrible killing camps, the Jews of Poland have proven, once again, that the struggle\u2014the relentless struggle against the executioners\u2014is both possible and indispensable [\u2026].\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2014 Lucien Steinberg, 2012, *Not Like Sheep:<\/em> Jews Against Hitler*. Published <\/em>by Les Balustres. <\/p>

\u2014 Rayski Adam, 1996, 1999, 2001, *The Letter of Jewish Resistance Fighters and Deportees* ( <\/em>Nos. 27, 43, 52). Published by the Union of Jewish Resistance Fighters and Deportees of France <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solidarity and Resistance in the death camps helped many deportees survive. In 1943 and 1944, the uprisings at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Sobibor\u2014in the hellish setting of the \u201cFinal Solution to the Jewish Question\u201d\u2014bear witness to the heroism and greatness of the Resistance fighters. Amid the conditions of systematic extermination, deportees managed to organize uprisings in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[207],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-17004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-12-3-repression-and-deportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17005,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17004\/revisions\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17004"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=17004"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=17004"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=17004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}