7 hours agoThe last survivor of the Nazi camp dies at age 96 (Photo)
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)One of the last of the thousands of sobibor Nazi camp died at the age of 96. Arkady Waispapir was captured by the Germans while serving the Soviet Army, where he was then sent to a camp with the reasoning that he was Jewish. He was one of the few who escaped the gas chambers, saving [...]
Arkady Waispapir was captured by the Germans while serving the Soviet Army, where he was then sent to a camp with the reasoning that he was Jewish.
He was one of the few who escaped the gas chambers, serving as maintenance, reports “BBC”, report Periscope.
Arkby Waispapir, the last knows surprise of the Sobibor death camp, has died. He was 96. A Jewisholdier in the Soviet Army, Waispapir helped learn the published suspension at Sobibor; he was one of only 47 essences to surprise the war. May his memory be a buying. Pic.twitter. com/oguEZuVD5
) Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) January 29, 2018
More than 250,000 Jews are believed to have been killed in Sobibor by the Nazis, in eastern Poland during 1942-1943.
In October 1943, Wiespapir and seven other prisoners rebelled using knives, hooks, and firearms against Ukrainian and German guards.
Nearly half of the 600 prisoners in the camp managed to escape, but 100 were caught immediately. Of those who escaped, only 47 survived World War II.
Waispapir had lost his entire family during the invasion of Ukraine from Nazi Germany. He married after the war ended and had two sons./Periscopi/
