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Holocaust Gas Chambers At Sobibor Death Camp Discovered
Israel News Agency ^ | September 17, 2014 | Joel Leyden

Posted on 09/17/2014 6:22:37 PM PDT by IsraelBeach

Holocaust Gas Chambers At Sobibor Death Camp Discovered

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem — September 17, 2014 … An archaeological dig in Poland has exposed the location of the gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial announced today.

Over 250,000 Jews were murdered at Sobibor, but on October 14, 1943, about 600 prisoners revolted and briefly escaped. Between 100 and 120 prisoners survived the revolt, and 60 of those survived the Holocaust. After the camp uprising, the Nazis bulldozed the area and planted it over with pine trees to conceal their crimes.

The archaeological dig at the Nazi death camp, which has been carried out by an international team of experts since 2007, has in the past uncovered thousands of personal items belonging to those interned at the camp, including jewelry, perfume, medicine and utensils.

A well was uncovered this week which was used by the Jewish prisoners in Camp 1, where the revolt took place. The well contained several personal items belonging to Jewish prisoners because German guards had thrown trash into it when the camp was being destroyed.

Dr. David Silberklang, a senior researcher at the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research in Israel said: “The discovery of the exact location of the gas chambers at the Sobibior Camp is a discovery of the utmost importance in Holocaust research.”

He said it was important to understand that “there are no remains from any Jews who worked in the area of the gas chambers, and therefore these findings are the only thing left from those who were murdered.”

Silberklang stated: “A small window has been opened into their daily (Jewish) suffering.”

He said for the first time researchers would be able to better understand the murder process in the Nazi camp and what the Jews went through before their death.

“Finding the exact size of the gas chambers will enable us to understand what their capacity was and from there we can determine a more precise estimation of the number of people killed at the Sobibor Camp,” Silberklang said.

He said the finding will also help fill in the puzzle of what happened to the prisoners who escaped from the camp during the rebellion.

Archaeologist Yoram Haimi said they were surprised at the size of the structure that housed the gas chambers and how well the chambers’ walls were preserved.

“The most exciting part is that we found near the gas chambers wedding rings with the inscription in Hebrew “Hare at mekudeshet li” (Behold, thou art consecrated to me).”

The Holocaust (also called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933 – when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities.

These deaths represented two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry.

The Jews who died were not casualties of the fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. Rather, they were the victims of Germany’s deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler called the “Final Solution” (Endlosung).

Yad Vashem (יָד וַשֵׁם) is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Lawpassed by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

Yad Vashem is located on the western slope of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Israel.

The memorial consists of a 180-dunam (18.0 ha; 44.5-acre) complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites such as the Children’s Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, The Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, a research institute with archives, a library, a publishing house, and an educational center named The International School/Institute for Holocaust Studies.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: holocaust; israel; jewish; poland; sobibor
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1 posted on 09/17/2014 6:22:38 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
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To: IsraelBeach

A pox on those who’d try to claim it never happened.


2 posted on 09/17/2014 7:00:27 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: IsraelBeach

Release dates 12 April 1987 (USA)
Running time = 143 minutes (uncut)
120 minutes (edited)
Country United Kingdom / Yugoslavia
Language English

Well worth viewing. The only successful breakout of a Nazi death camp. Never Forget!

3 posted on 09/17/2014 7:02:51 PM PDT by MacNaughton ("... something wicked this way comes." 1606, Macbeth, Act IV Scene i, by the "Bard")
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To: IsraelBeach

Just as a historical note, they didn’t use Zyklon-B in these early “proof-of-concept” death camps. They instead used exhaust fumes from tank engines.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 7:03:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Still Thinking

A pox on those who’d try to claim it never happened.


Amen. Bless those who perished under the hands of the evil ones.

And, bless those souls who revolted....

....Between 100 and 120 prisoners survived the revolt, and 60 of those survived the Holocaust.


5 posted on 09/17/2014 7:06:56 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: MacNaughton

It’s here on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQYG5dsFcp8


6 posted on 09/17/2014 7:06:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: IsraelBeach

Never forget.


7 posted on 09/17/2014 7:09:24 PM PDT by mylife
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To: MacNaughton

Not the only successful revolt, there was also one at Treblinka.

http://www.ushmm.org/research/the-center-for-advanced-holocaust-studies/miles-lerman-center-for-the-study-of-jewish-resistance/medals-of-resistance-award/treblinka-death-camp-revolt


8 posted on 09/17/2014 7:09:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SpaceBar

Years ago I worked in an area close to a library. My job was manning the phone mostly. I took up reading autobiographies of survivors of the death camps. After 4 or 5 I had to stop.

The Nazis and even so capos were some real sick evil bastards. The stuff Mengele did was beyond barbaric. Injecting kids with all kinds of stuff etc.,


9 posted on 09/17/2014 7:30:25 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: IsraelBeach

A fantastic discovery, about which many of us will be waiting to read the details.


10 posted on 09/17/2014 7:31:19 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: MacNaughton

Escape from Sobibor is not only a great WW2 holocaust movie, it’s a great movie supporting the 2nd Amd. True. The entire plot revolves around GETTING WEAPONS in order to fight and kill the Nazi SS guards. Without guns, they are slaves bound for ovens. With guns, free men and women again.


11 posted on 09/17/2014 7:33:07 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mylife

The evil...the pure evil of this should never be forgotten. There was a quote from an SS man who said the worst thing was shooting the children...not that he cared in the least about jewish children.. but he said “they won’t sit still to be shot”


12 posted on 09/17/2014 7:34:58 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: DJlaysitup

Reminds me of Islam.


13 posted on 09/17/2014 7:39:23 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Travis McGee

I make the point that the difference between libs and us is that if we suddenly found ourselves in a concentration camp, we would work on an escape like Sorbibor. The libs would fight for coed showers.


14 posted on 09/17/2014 7:43:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: MacNaughton

A movie school kids should see. But liberals fight the idea that man can be so evil, thus will not prepare fort it.


15 posted on 09/17/2014 7:48:48 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: MacNaughton

I’d never heard of this. Thanks!


16 posted on 09/17/2014 7:51:00 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
The libs would fight for coed showers.

They would also fink on conservative inmates and volunteer for capos duty.

17 posted on 09/17/2014 7:52:15 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: VRWCarea51

I had a conversation this week with a women who did not know about the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear. I considered her an educated person being a retired school teacher and all. Guess not.

Never, ever give up your guns.


18 posted on 09/17/2014 8:21:50 PM PDT by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - back home in Dixie.)
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To: Still Thinking
A pox on those who’d try to claim it never happened.

Interesting you should post that immediately. Nothing in this article brings up that subject.

A holocaust happened, certainly. HOW it happened is subject to discussion and examination. Shooting, hanging, starvation, work exhaustion and disease accounts for staggering numbers. But the numbers themselves have been shown to have been inflated and massaged many times. And besides Jews, there were millions and millions of Slavic people who were murdered one way or another who are never mentioned in these accounts. All we ever hear about are the six million Jews, and not the millions of others who were murdered in these terrible places.

But poison gas? Poison gas has inescapable technical problems - as in if the murderer does it wrong, they kill themselves, too. In vehicles it was done with the exhaust sometimes, because the vehicles could be sealed off. But I have my doubts about the classic Zyklon B in the fake shower rooms. NONE of the supposed extermination chambers were properly sealed and would have poisoned everyone in the camp if they were used for poison gas. Plus commissaries and medical stations were literally next door to these buildings. Also, the gas makes a stain on concrete that is not present inside the supposed killing chambers, where it should be coated with it after millions of deaths. As well, it would have taken a huge amount of time to air the gas safely after each extermination session, and the numbers don't support that timeframe. The only places we've found where we know Zyklon B was used is in small disinfectant rooms for clothes, to try to stop epidemics from happening. And as for the ovens, the size of the ash dumps from them simply don't support their number claims - nor the known time it takes to cremate bodies, nor explain why so much fuel would have been used during wartime for this compared to the needs of the German Army.

Yet history also conclusively shows that Nazi concentration camps were indeed mass killing machines, and millions died in them of shooting, hanging, starvation, work exhaustion and disease. Those who deny this are either fools or enemies of civilization. But the specific mechanism of using poison gas for mass death chambers is an unverified addition to the many hideous realities of these death camps, IMO, that has not withstood careful scrutiny over time and which invoke many contradictions.

What many people don't know is that some of these same death camps also had things like art clubs, a swimming pool for inmates, a band that played regular concerts by and for the inmates, and medical centers for the ill. Not that this made the places a resort - rather, these things make no sense whatsoever under the typical storyline. In fact, they are utterly bizarre. But so were the Nazis. Because besides being totalitarian collectivists and murderers, the Nazis were also a weird black magic cult that followed certain precepts of their own. They'd kill at the drop of a hat, and at the same time help a little old lady across the street if she was the right race and loyalty, or not shoot someone but starve them to death in they were something else. So they were not just insane, but complexly insane, and the world would do well to study that insanity more carefully to pick out the patterns for identification where they spring up somewhere else.

19 posted on 09/17/2014 8:54:06 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: IsraelBeach

FEMA sent for the plans to see if they could improve their concentration...er, reeducation camps.


20 posted on 09/17/2014 9:02:27 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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