Following the end of World War II, the former grounds of the German Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór were forgotten for nearly twenty years. Deprived of proper protection and oversight, the area was susceptible to numerous acts of desecration and destruction. The first initiatives to commemorate the site were not undertaken until the early 1960s. That coincided with the trials of the Nazi oppressors in Hagen, Germany, and in Krasnodar, then USSR.
”Those of you who survive should bear witness to this. Let the world know what happened here. ” Those words were uttered by Alexander Pechersky during the prisoner uprising on 14 October 1943. Today they are the obligation of the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór and guide is in our everyday work.
