Which 1943 revolt saw prisoners escape from the Nazi extermination camp Sobibór?

The Sobibór uprising was the 14 October 1943 revolt in which prisoners escaped from the Nazi extermination camp Sobibór. The conspiracy was organized by prisoners including Alexander Pechersky, a Soviet Jewish prisoner of war, and Leon Feldhendler.

The plan involved secretly killing several German guards and taking weapons before the camp alarm could be raised. Although the operation became chaotic, hundreds of prisoners reached the camp’s perimeter. Many were killed by mines, German pursuit, or collaborators, but dozens survived the war.

The revolt occurred during Operation Reinhard, the German operation that murdered Jews in occupied Poland at Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. After the escape, German authorities dismantled Sobibór, removed evidence, and planted trees over the site.

Sobibór is sometimes confused with Treblinka’s prisoner uprising, which occurred earlier, on 2 August 1943. Both revolts took place at extermination camps and involved prisoners resisting almost certain death, but they were separate events.