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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:05 PM Sunday

Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡


Best Documentaries of History, 2025, (26 mins).

George Mueller and Steen Metz tell their Holocaust survival stories from when they were put in concentration camps as just young children. George and his sister Ursula were two of the five children who survived the massacre of over a thousand children in Sobibor.
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Wiki. - SOBIBOR was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland.

As an extermination camp rather than a concentration camp, Sobibor existed for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. The vast majority of prisoners were gassed within hours of arrival.

Those not killed immediately were forced to assist in the operation of the camp, and few survived more than a few months. In total, some 170,000 to 250,000 people were murdered at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec.

The camp ceased operation after a prisoner revolt which took place on 14 October 1943...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp
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- White Buses. White Buses (Swedish: Vita bussarna) was a Swedish humanitarian operation with the objective of freeing Scandinavians in German concentration camps in Nazi Germany during the final stages of World War II. Although the White Buses operation was envisioned to rescue Scandinavians, one-half of those taken from the camps to Sweden were of other nationalities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Buses
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