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]

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	Female

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age	Nationality	Faith	Notes
Jacobs, MozesMozes Jacobs[3]	November 26, 1905	July 9, 1943	37 years, 225 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast. Participated at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.[4]
Poppert, Walter M.Walter M. Poppert[5]	March 26, 1914	October 30, 1943	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]
Dam, Max vanMax van Dam[7][8]	March 19, 1910	September 20, 1943	33 years, 185 days	Dutch	Jewish	Art Painter.
Oliveira, Abraham deAbraham de Oliveira[4]	May 4, 1880	March 26, 1943	62 years, 326 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast.
Goudeket, IsidoreIsidore Goudeket[4]	August 1, 1883	July 9, 1943	59 years, 342 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast.
Dresden-Polak, AnnaAnna Dresden-Polak[4]	November 24, 1906	July 23, 1943	36 years, 241 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast. Her husband Barend Dresden was killed at Auschwitz on November 30, 1944.
Dresden, EvaEva 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).
Simons, JudJud Simons[10]	August 20, 1904	March 3, 1943	38 years, 195 days	Dutch	Jewish	Gymnast.[4]
Themans, Bernard SalomonBernard Salomon Themans[11]	April 5, 1909	March 3, 1943	33 years, 332 days	Dutch	Jewish	Husband of Judik Themans née Simons.
Themans, SonjaSonja Themans[12]	1937 or 1938	March 3, 1943	5 years	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard Themans.
Themans, LeonLeon Themans[13]	1939 or 1940	March 3, 1943	3 years	Dutch	Jewish	Son of Judik Themans née Simons and Bernard Themans.
Querido, EmanuelEmanuel Querido	August 6, 1871	July 23, 1943	71 years, 320 days	Dutch	Jewish	Publisher. His wife was also killed at the camp at the same time.
Smit, LeoLeo Smit[14][15]	May 14, 1900	April 30, 1943	42 years, 351 days	Dutch	Jewish	Composer.
Velleman, MichelMichel Velleman	January 5, 1895	July 2, 1943	48 years, 178 days	Dutch	Jewish	Magician.
Deen, HelgaHelga Deen[16][17]	April 6, 1925	July 16, 1943	18 years, 101 days	German	Jewish	Diarist. Her parents and brother were killed at the same time.
Feldmann, ElseElse Feldmann[18]	February 25, 1884	June 1942	57 or 58 years	Austrian	Jewish	Writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist.
Hoddis, Jakob vanJakob van Hoddis[19]	May 16, 1887	c. April 30, 1942	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.
Hollander, HanHan Hollander[21]	October 5, 1886	July 9, 1943	56 years, 277 days	Dutch	Jewish	Journalist. First Dutch radio sports journalist.
Hollander-Smeer, LeentjeLeentje Hollander-Smeer[22]	October 6, 1886	July 9, 1943	56 years, 276 days	Dutch	Jewish	Wife of Han Hollander. Their daughter Froukje Esther Waterman-Hollander was killed at Auschwitz on February 28, 1943.
Kleerekoper, ElisabethElisabeth Kleerekoper[23]	October 14, 1928	July 2, 1943	14 years, 261 days	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Gerrit Kleerekoper and Kaatje Kleerekoper-
Kleerekoper, GerritGerrit Kleerekoper[24]	February 15, 1897	July 2, 1943	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]
Kleerekoper-Ossedrijver, KaatjeKaatje Kleerekoper-Ossedrijver[25]	August 29, 1895	July 2, 1943	47 years, 307 days	Dutch	Jewish	Spouse of Gerrit Kleerekoper
Kloot, AbrahamAbraham Kloot[26]	July 28, 1902	July 2, 1943	40 years, 339 days	Dutch	Jewish	Spouse of Helena Kloot née Nordheim
Lilien, KurtKurt Lilien[27]	August 6, 1882	May 28, 1943	60 years, 295 days	German	Jewish	Film and stage actor.
Nordheim, HelenaHelena Nordheim[28]	August 1, 1903	July 2, 1943	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]
Kloot, RebeccaRebecca Kloot[29]	April 12, 1933	July 2, 1943	10 years, 81 days	Dutch	Jewish	Daughter of Helena Kloot née Nordheim and Abraham Kloot

Survivors of Sobibor

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. http://www.leosmit.nl/over_leosmit.html
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. History of Holocaust
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