Semion Rosenfeld was part of a 300-person rebellion and Sobibor. A third of escapees were caught almost immediately, and of the 200 who got out, only 47 survived the war.
AFP / Getty ImagesSemion Rosenfeld ( left ) , the last known survivor of the Sobibor death encampment uprising , with Alexander Pechersky , who led the safety valve . appointment and location unknown .
The last known subsister of the 1943 Sobibor uprising — when 300 Jewish prisoners escaped a Nazi destruction encampment during the Holocaust — has died . According to theBBC , Semion Rosenfeld , 96 , exit away Monday at a retirement house near Tel Aviv , Israel .
Born in Ukraine , Rosenfeld was captured by the Nazis in 1941 while serve in the Soviet Army , and sent to a concentration cantonment in Minsk because he was Judaic . In 1943 , he was transferred to Sobibor , in Nazi - occupied Poland . His integral family was kill by the Nazis .
AFP/Getty ImagesSemion Rosenfeld (left), the last known survivor of the Sobibor death camp uprising, with Alexander Pechersky, who led the escape. Date and location unknown.
In October 1943 , Rosenfeld and 300 fellow captive escape the Sobibor last ingroup , killing 11 Nazi guards in the process . exemption was suddenly - survive for some of them , as the Nazis recaptured a third of the escapee almost straight off .
Of the remaining 200 prisoner who manage to get out , only 47 survived the war . With those harrowing statistics in mind , and the fact that over 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibor between 1942 and 1943 , Rosenfeld ’s survival has been a symbol of perseverance and triumph over immorality for his entire life .
In 1944 , rather of concealing or place distance between himself and war , he retort the Soviet Army , helping take Berlin .
U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe Nazis shot all remaining inmates dead, and planted over the campgrounds to hide their crimes.
According toDeutsche Welle , Rosenfeld ’s retreat was well - indorse by the semi - governmental non - profit organization , Jewish Agency for Israel . Its head , Isaac Herzog , described Rosenfeld as a “ true hero . ”
“ Semion fought the Nazis as part of the Red Army and was then institutionalize to the Sobibor death ingroup as a prisoner of war , where he meet dying every daytime until the famous revolt , ” enjoin Herzog .
U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe Nazis hit all remaining inmates dead , and planted over the campgrounds to hide their criminal offence .
Wikimedia CommonsThe memorial at Sobibor: a pyramid made of sand mixed with human ashes.
After the 300 inmates rat their break , Rosenfeld obscure in the forest for half a year .
“ I was n’t afraid , ” he tell . “ I did n’t have time to think about it . I wanted to survive . ”
“ Rosenfeld fight in the Red Army , was shoot captive by the Nazis , cope to get off the death camp and proceed to fight Nazism , ” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement . “ May his computer memory be blessed . ”
Wikimedia CommonsThe memorial at Sobibor : a Great Pyramid made of sand mixed with human ashes .
After the insurrection , the Nazis seek to destroy all trace of the Sobibor camp . They tore it down and even planted over its soil in an attempt to mask what they ’d done there . At least 167,000 people were killed at Sobibor between March 1942 and October 1943 .
In the end , Rosenfeld ’s passing represents the end of an earned run average . For all the families and loved ones who ’ve been directly affected by the Sobibor camp , the demise of the uprising ’s last known survivor distinguish a cleared transition . On a grander scale , Rosenfeld was just one of 212,000 Holocaust survivor still dwell in Israel .
He leaves behind two son and five grandchild — none of whom would ’ve existed were it not for Rosenfeld ’s sand .
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