During World War II, the death camp at Treblinka experienced an escape, prompting the commandant of a similar camp in Sobibor to swear (actually threaten) that his camp would never see a similar situation. But those who were its inmates, the Jewish laborers who had been saved from the furnaces, understood they were living on borrowed time and that their only chance of survival was to escape... the only question was how to do it. On October 14, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance successfully murdered eleven German commanders and several Ukrainian guards. Approximately 300 of the camp's 600 inmates fled, but the majority were recaptured and executed shortly thereafter. The Nazis were compelled by the escape to shut down the extermination camp, demolish it, and establish a forest on the site.
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During World War II, the death camp at Treblinka experienced an escape, prompting the commandant of a similar camp in Sobibor to swear (actually threaten) that his camp would never see a similar situation. But those who were its inmates, the Jewish laborers who had been saved from the furnaces, understood they were living on borrowed time and that their only chance of survival was to escape... the only question was how to do it. On October 14, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance successfully murdered eleven German commanders and several Ukrainian guards. Approximately 300 of the camp's 600 inmates fled, but the majority were recaptured and executed shortly thereafter. The Nazis were compelled by the escape to shut down the extermination camp, demolish it, and establish a forest on the site.
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