List of victims of Sobibór

This is a list of people who died in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 167,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to 300,000. For practical reasons it is not possible to list all the people murdered at the camp. The operatives of the Nazi regime not only robbed Jews of their earthly possessions and their lives but attempted to eradicate all traces of their existence as they engaged in the genocidal policies of the Final Solution. ^{[1] [2]}

	Male
	Female

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age	Nationality	Faith	Notes
Mozes Jacobs [3]	November 26, 1905	July 9, 1943	7004137390000000000♠37 years, 225 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast. Participated at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. [4]
Walter M. Poppert [5]	March 26, 1914	October 30, 1943	7004108100000000000♠29 years, 218 days	German	Jewish	Husband of Gertrud Poppert née Schönborn. In 1943, he was foreman of the Waldkommando in the Sobibor Extermination camp. [6]
Max van Dam [7] [8]	March 19, 1910	September 20, 1943	7004122380000000000♠33 years, 185 days	Dutch	Jewish	Art Painter.
Abraham de Oliveira [4]	May 4, 1880	March 26, 1943	7004229700000000000♠62 years, 326 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast.
Isidore Goudeket [4]	August 1, 1883	July 9, 1943	7004218910000000000♠59 years, 342 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast.
Anna Dresden-Polak [4]	November 24, 1906	July 23, 1943	7004133900000000000♠36 years, 241 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast. Her husband Barend Dresden was killed at Auschwitz on November 30, 1944.
Eva Dresden [9]	1936 or 1937	July 23, 1943	6 years	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Anna Dresden-Polak and Barend Dresden (killed at Auschwitz, November 30, 1944).
Jud Simons [10]	August 20, 1904	March 3, 1943	7004140740000000000♠38 years, 195 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast. [4]
Bernard Salomon Themans [11]	April 5, 1909	March 3, 1943	7004123850000000000♠33 years, 332 days	Dutch	Jewish	Husband of Judik Themans née Simons.
Sonja Themans [12]	1937 or 1938	March 3, 1943	5 years	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard Themans.
Leon Themans [13]	1939 or 1940	March 3, 1943	3 years	Dutch	Jewish	Son of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard Themans.
Emanuel Querido	August 6, 1871	July 23, 1943	7004262520000000000♠71 years, 320 days	Dutch	Jewish	Publisher. His wife was also killed at the camp at the same time.
Leo Smit [14] [15]	May 14, 1900	April 30, 1943	7004156910000000000♠42 years, 351 days	Dutch	Jewish	Composer.
Michel Velleman	January 5, 1895	July 2, 1943	7004177090000000000♠48 years, 178 days	Dutch	Jewish	Magician.
Helga Deen [16] [17]	April 6, 1925	July 16, 1943	7003667500000000000♠18 years, 101 days	German	Jewish	Diarist. Her parents and brother were killed at the same time.
Else Feldmann [18]	February 25, 1884	June 1942	57 or 58 years	Austrian	Jewish	Writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist.
Jakob van Hoddis [19]	May 16, 1887	c. April 30, 1942	7004200720000000000♠54 years, 349 days	German	Jewish	Poet, generally regarded with writing the preliminary expressionist poem, inspiring countless poets. [20] Mentally ill, transported to Sobibor along with the 500 patients and staff of his sanitorium on April 30, 1942, all of whom perished.
Han Hollander [21]	October 5, 1886	July 9, 1943	7004207300000000000♠56 years, 277 days	Dutch	Jewish	Journalist. First Dutch radio sports journalist.
Leentje Hollander-Smeer [22]	October 6, 1886	July 9, 1943	7004207290000000000♠56 years, 276 days	Dutch	Jewish	Wife of Han Hollander. Their daughter Froukje Esther Waterman-Hollander was killed at Auschwitz on February 28, 1943.
Elisabeth Kleerekoper [23]	October 14, 1928	July 2, 1943	7003537400000000000♠14 years, 261 days	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Gerrit Kleerekoper and Kaatje Kleerekoper-
Gerrit Kleerekoper [24]	February 15, 1897	July 2, 1943	7004169370000000000♠46 years, 137 days	Dutch	Jewish	Coach of the women's gymnastic team which won the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. [4]
Kaatje Kleerekoper-Ossedrijver [25]	August 29, 1895	July 2, 1943	7004174730000000000♠47 years, 307 days	Dutch	Jewish	Spouse of Gerrit Kleerekoper
Abraham Kloot [26]	July 28, 1902	July 2, 1943	7004149490000000000♠40 years, 339 days	Dutch	Jewish	Spouse of Helena Kloot née Nordheim
Kurt Lilien [27]	August 6, 1882	May 28, 1943	7004222090000000000♠60 years, 295 days	German	Jewish	Film and stage actor.
Helena Nordheim [28]	August 1, 1903	July 2, 1943	7004145800000000000♠39 years, 335 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast, member of the women's gymnastic team which won the gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. [4]
Rebecca Kloot [29]	April 12, 1933	July 2, 1943	7003373300000000000♠10 years, 81 days	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Helena Kloot née Nordheim and Abraham Kloot

Survivors of Sobibor

Main article: List of survivors of Sobibór

There are fifty eight known survivors; forty-nine male and ten female, among those who were in the camp as Arbeitshäftlinge, deportees selected from arriving transports to perform slave-labour for the daily operation of the camp. Their time in the camp ranged from several weeks to almost two years. A handful of Arbeitshäftlinge managed to escape while assigned to the Waldkommando, inmate details assigned the task of felling and preparing trees for the body disposal pyres. The majority of the survivors among Sobibor's Arbeitshäftlinge survived as a result of their camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943. Dutch historian Jules Schelvis estimated that 158 inmates perished in the revolt, killed by the guards and the minefield surrounding the camp, and that a further 107 were re-captured and murdered by the SS, Wehrmacht and Police units tasked with pursuing the escapees. He estimates that another 53 escapees died of other causes between the day of the revolt and May 8, 1945. In the aftermath of the revolt, the remaining camp inmates were murdered and the camp dismantled. Schelvis estimated that at the time of the escape there had been approximately 650 inmates in the camp. ^[6]

Among the Sobibor survivors are also those who were spared the gas chambers in the camp as a result of transfer to slave-labour camps in the Lublin district, after selections upon arrival at Sobibor. These people spent several hours at Sobibor and were transferred almost immediately to slave-labour camps, including Majdanek and Alter Flugplatz in the city of Lublin, where materials looted from the gassed victims were prepared for shipment and distribution, and forced labour camps such as Krychów, Dorohucza and Trawniki. Estimates for the number of people selected in Sobibor range up to several thousand, of whom many perished in captivity before the end of the nazi regime. The total number of survivors in this cohort includes 16 known survivors, 13 women and 3 men, from among the 34,313 people deported to Sobibor from the Netherlands. ^[6]

References

1. Sobibor: Chronology at the USHMM
2. History Sobibor at the Dutch Sobibor Foundation.
3. Mozes Jacobs in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
4. Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN   9780813528205.
5. Walter M. Poppert, in the German Federal Archives Memorial Book.
6. Schelvis, Jules. Vernietigingskamp Sobibor. De Bataafsche Leeuw. ISBN   9789067076296.
7. Scholtz, Wim, ed. (1986). Max van Dam, Joods Kunstenaar 1910-1943. Vereniging het Museum Winterswijk. ISBN   90-70560-07-0.
8. Max van Dam in Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
9. Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games. Sussex Academic Press. p. 107. ISBN   9781903900871.
10. Judik Themans née Simons in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
11. Bernard Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
12. Sonja Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
13. Leon Themans in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
14. "Leo Smit Stichting - Welkom bij de Leo Smit Stichting".
15. Samama, L. (2006). Nederlandse muziek in de twintigste eeuw: voorspel tot een nieuwe dag (in Dutch). Amsterdam University Press. p. 149. ISBN   9789053568620.
16. "Shades of Anne Frank in Dutch prison camp diary." Sydney Morning Herald , 22 October 2004.
17. "Dutch uncover diary of Nazi camp". BBC News . 2004-10-20. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
18. Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers , Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. 1997.
19. "Holocaust-history.org". Archived from the original on 2004-09-19.
20. Kundera, Ludvík. Expresionismus. p. 10.
21. Han Hollander on the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
22. Leentje Hollander-Smeer on the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
23. Elisabeth Kleerekoper in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
24. Gerrit Kleerekoper in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
25. Kaatje Kleerekoper née Ossedrijver in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
26. Abraham Kloot in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
27. "Kurt Lilien". filmportal. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
28. Helena Kloot née Nordheim in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
29. Rebecca Kloot in the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands