The walk of death at Sobibor

The death camp at Sobibor operated from May 1942 - October 1943. In that time around 250,000 people were brought there and killed. This short film shows the route they took from the railway station to the gas chamber and how it looks today (2007).

[@mikepreston-engel8869]

Chaim Engel and Selma Wijnberg-Engel, great great cousins of mine, were two of the successful escapees of the revolt. 600 escaped, but only 58 survived. Chaim passed in 2003 and Selma in 2018.

[@pajamalover]

Thank you so much for this. I've always wanted to go to Poland to visit and pay respect to victims of the Holocaust, and you've helped me to see Sobibor from more of an inside perspective. Thanks again.

[@carolinekaplan542]

Alan. Thank you for posting these videos of the camps. I lost nine siblings if my great grandfather and their spouses and children ; they were originally from Grodno and ended up in a pit in a forest or at treblinka. It’s possible some were sent to aushwitz. None of them survived.

[@jessicamilestone4026]

Thank you, Mr Heath. I really appreciate all your hard work

[@jdolce101]

Great video, thanks for sharing. I've met one of the Sobibor survivors! She and her husband escaped together and later got married. He's since died, but she lives along the Connecticut shoreline

[@IbanezFan550]

Many of my relatives were sent here after being deported from Vienna in 1941/1942 to various ghettos in Poland, while others were sent directly to Maly Trostinec in Belarus (including an 8 year old boy) or Auschwitz (after going through the Mechelen transit camp in Belgium). From the ghettos they were sent to Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. Really sad that an entire part of my family was wiped out - husbands and wives separated from each other and from their kids, most likely never to see them again. My new obsession is to figure out where they went and try to find out more about them!

[@rjptiger]

O.k. thanks, I thought I was thinking of the right place! Also thanks for posting these videos. I would of never known what some of these places looked like if it wasn't for your videos!

[@nilepax8168]

Lived in berlin Germany and visited sachsenhausen. Sunday afternoon. Went down into the mortuary alone, tiled, arched. The underground punishment block. Just incredible. The impact of it is absolutely like a huge wave rolling over you. I can still recall every detail. A very dear friend said it best. "Here in Germany we keep the small rules. But we break the big ones." I loved the Germans (mostly!). I'm an island monkey and I did notice how much in common we had.

[@kengrimes1012]

When I arrived in Germany in 1964 to start my time in the British army of the Rhine, we were taken to hohne by Belsen, what I could never understand is the locals saying "we didn't know". Far better to admit " we knew or suspected but could do nothing"

[@hazer451]

Excellent video. I recently read a very good book called "Escape From Sobibior." I've heard that it is still possible to kick up bone and hair fragments in the woods of Sobibor. What a place.

[@katocephas1069]

The film ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR .led me to know more about this tragedy ,its rilly sad ,that many jews met their death from that place .itsone of the historical places i want to visit one day .kato from uganda -africa

[@kristine8338]

Dear Alan, Thank you So much for making the effort of posting all this on YT. We must never forget . . . From France 👒

[@jdolce101]

Great Job Alan. I really enjoyed the footage and your detailed commentary. Thanks for sharing.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

The civilians knew for very many kilometres around what was going on here.

[@Tony63909]

Excellent video. Thanks for the upload. It was very well organized.

[@kingkingglassco1591]

I just came across your channel today am a kid I was born 1998 I don't really know much about the Sobibor history but I watched the movie in 2012 the movie came in 1987 am from Africa my name is Emmette Morris Zeah from the movie tells me that the story is a real life story I shed tears each time I watched that movie and I have watched it like for almost 95 times now in my life and I still watching it again in 2023 I always feels goosebumps on my skin it's actually real rest in peace to all those people who passed away at the Sobibor camp and all those who lost their great great grandfather mothers brothers and sisters my condolences to them and to all our brave people that survive Sobibor up to this day and still alive may you continue to live long and keep narrating the history to the next generation that's coming

[@legendwarrior85]

thanks for your very good research and your efforts in showing us these places !!!! Saw the movie Escape from Sobibor yday...and now seeing this video makes me to corelate the horrible things that would have happened back then !!! nice video !! thx !!

[@Seb.Bld77]

Thank you for this video man

[@tracimclaughlin6943]

Thank you so much for sharing...

[@michielmd76]

Thanks for posting these vids. Disturbing to see that the camps are actually located in beautiful regions of Poland....